1.
Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending.
Barbara Holland
2.
A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.
Alice Munro
3.
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
Samuel Johnson
4.
Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.
Norman Mailer
5.
Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.
Hugh B. Brown
6.
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
7.
With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
Friedrich Nietzsche
8.
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
Edmund Burke
9.
I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.
John Swartzwelder
10.
The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.
Susan Wiggs