Quotes of: Grit Keyword

Tom Chaney: [after being shot by Mattie] I didn't think you'd do it! One of my short ribs is broke!

True Grit

Rooster Cogburn: Baby sister, I was born game and I intend to go out that way.

True Grit

Rooster Cogburn: Well, sister, the time has come for me to ride hard and fast.

True Grit

Mattie Ross: I have no regard for you, but I'm sure you have enough for yourself to go around.

True Grit

[first lines] Frank Ross: Little Frank... You take care of your mama. Little Frank: I will.

True Grit

Mattie Ross: [about drinking whiskey] I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

True Grit

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

John Shelton Reed

Grit drives people to succeed, especially when they face daunting and prolonged challenges—a hallmark of every scaling effort. (Scaling Up Excellence)

Life

Achan gritted his teeth and recalled Sir Eagan's words. Love was not taking because you wanted, he'd said. Love was sacrifice.

From Darkness Won

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.

The Angel Experiment

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

Steal Across the Sky

Tom Chaney would pay for this! I would not rest easy until that Louisiana cur was roasting and screaming in hell!

True Grit

You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.

True Grit

Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.

Laurie Graham

Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it.

Leigh-Allyn Baker

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Mattie Ross: You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.

True Grit

Rooster Cogburn: I'm a foolish old man who's been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpie in trousers and a nincompoop.

True Grit

Rooster Cogburn: [to Matty about burying the outlaws] The ground's too hard. If they wanted a decent funeral, they should have got themselves killed in summer.

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Rooster Cogburn: You can't serve papers on a rat, baby sister. You gotta kill him or let him be.

True Grit

Rooster Cogburn: Damn you, Bo. First time you ever give me reason to... cuss you.

True Grit