Rugged Quotes

Rugged Quote of the day

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.

The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

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.

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger

When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget, Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

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

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.

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

The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

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

A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.

I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.

There's a thrill when you have a hard set, a rugged workout, and you feel it, and you take it, and you go beyond it.

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

The moon is very rugged.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne.

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.

O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?

Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

It'll make you look rugged, ' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning, ' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.