Rough Quotes
Honest words about hard beginnings.
This rough quotes page collects candid reflections on difficult upbringings and challenging environments, including one speaker's honest admission about coming from a tough part of the Bronx. For more on early-life struggles, see our Childhood quotes page.
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Always Quotes
The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.
Been Quotes
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
John Kerry is going to have a rough tenure as secretary of state. But let's face it: whoever came after Hillary Clinton was going to have to deal with a foreign affairs press corps that has been sleeping for four...
I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.
I was a street-guy villain. I was a street-corner villain. I was an illiterate villain. All rough edges.
Being Quotes
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
The holidays are a rough time for the homeless, but it's a year-round problem we have to solve.
Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.
Childhood Quotes
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
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Others embrace the chaotic, unpredictable side of public life without complaint, showing resilience can look like acceptance too. Browse our Been quotes and Being quotes pages for more.
