Quotes of Rugged - somelinesforyou

“ I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside. ”

- James Broughton

“ When the going gets tough, let the tough get going. ”

- Frank Leahy

“ If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough! ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ What makes Beaty so tough is his patience. ”

- Scott Young

“ We're going to have to make tough choices and we're going to have to make them together. ”

- Bill Clinton

“ It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away. ”

- Norman Rockwell

“ Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ You have to be tough. ”

- Mike Ditka

“ The way of the pioneer is always rough. ”

- Harvey S. Firestone

“ It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of. ”

- Emily Carr

“ When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile. ”

- George Burns

“ The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. ”

- George Age

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

- Nicolas Boileau

“ Except in a few well-publicized instances the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb. ”

- Lewis H. Lapham
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