Walter Scott Quotes

Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're like that catfish with lungs. Take us out of our environment and we can grow whatever body parts we need to survive. After Jersey the rest of the country's a piece of cake. You want to send someone into a fallout zone? Get him from Jersey. He'll be fine.

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.

I'm pretty tough.

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

… there isn’t anything you can’t stand if you are only born and bred to it..

I'm pretty gritty.

I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'

It's the way of life in Saginaw. If you're not tough, you don't survive.

It was never a thing that bothered me, being cold or if there's snow. It never fazed me.

I'm just tough.

I think there are things you can do to toughen yourself up.

I'm tough.

I've gotten tougher.

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives

Things can change. Life is all a learning process.

You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky.

Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.