Quotes About Rugged

I'm an old-time cowboy. I'm an outlaw.

Our home was in a beautiful valley far back in the rugged Ozarks. The country was new and sparsely settled. The land we lived on was Cherokee land, allotted to my mother because of the Cherokee blood that flowed in her veins. It lay in a strip from the foothills of the mountains to the banks of the Illinois River in northeastern Oklahoma.

When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism.

He was blond, about six feet tall, muscular, and absurdly good-looking in a rugged, masculine way, as if God had taken Brad Pitt and decided to make him really handsome.

Even the men were better groomed than I was. Kimmy's queer brigade wears purposefully sloppy hair and uses special shavers that leave rugged day-old stubble.

You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler.

Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

Patagonia brings to mind, as we once wrote in a catalog introduction, "romantic visions of glaciers tumbling into fjords, jagged windswept peaks, gauchos and condors." Our intent was to make clothing for those rugged southern Andes/Cape Horn conditions. It's been a good name for us, and it can be pronounced in every language.

In most gatherings people blend into one another—they are dressed in the same fashion and their faces wear the same sort of "party look"—but these people were so strong and rugged in personality that they always remained themselves no matter where they were or what they were doing. Presently,

She looked up at me with a polite smile, her dark hair long and appealing...I liked the smile. Maybe I didn't look like a beaten-up bum. Maybe on me it just looked ruggedly determined. I'm sorry, sir, she said, but the addiction counseling center is on twenty-six. Sigh.

The firelight cast harsh shadows over his rugged face, and those eyes glittered raw emerald green. His breath brushed her lips with the scent of wine and mint. "I've tried to go easy on you, to be gentle and give you time to trust me, but I see now that you have the instincts of a pinecone.

Rural life in the winter months was rugged: snow-blurred and alcohol-fueled, violent and fast.

Let me tell you a few things about this place, the UP," Laurent said, as they drove out of town in his Silverado pickup. "The UP is about the most remote place in the lower forty-eight—other

The man picked her up in Vernazza, a picturesque village perched along the rugged coastline of the Italian Riviera.

Ah knew his eyes were blue and though his face seemed rugged, even swarthy in the sepia tones of the photograph, it was obvious that the sea and salt had been instrumental in darkening what was once a pale and bloodless complexion – like mine.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.