Strong Quotes

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
Thomas a Kempis

Show, Weak, Either

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
Cate Blanchett

Age, Women, Great

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
Arlen Specter

War, Friend, American

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Arlen Specter

Time, Country, Made

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.
Arlen Specter

Education, Health, Care

I do come from a strong family.
Arlen Specter

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
George Will

Government, Live, Country

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.
Miranda Lambert

I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.
Miranda Lambert

Amazing, Thankful, Support

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Jean Piaget

Knowledge, Human, Single

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.
George H. W. Bush

Great, Heart, Play

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry Adams

Else, However, Remain

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.
Lester Bangs

Real, Find, Coming

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.
Patti Smith

Musician, Performer, Evolved

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
Georg Buchner

Through, Small, Eyes

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
John Dryden

Age, Alone, Enough

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Susan Sontag

Love, Famous, Quite

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.
Twyla Tharp

Good, Women, Today

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
V. S. Naipaul

Strength, Write, Master

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Rita Mae Brown

Successful, Action, Weak

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather

Life, Art, Past

Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?
Mary J. Blige

Doubt, Made, Wanted

I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Politics, American, Support

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
Lenny Kravitz

Women, Men, Side

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.
Eliot Spitzer

Leadership, Politics, Important

I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.
Shaquille O'Neal

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.
Jim DeMint

Work, Family, Nature

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
J. C. Watts

Bad, Sense, Group

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
Eddie Vedder

Hope, Live, Proud

I'm a strong person. I'm also very sassy and a little bit angsty sometimes.
Ashley Tisdale

Person, Sometimes, Bit

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