Quotes of: Thick-skin Keyword

Learn to paint a tiger and you only paint his skin; learn to know a human being and you only know his face.

Chinese

For Southerners, a white skin was the distinguishing badge of mind and intellect. Black skin was the sign that a given people had been providentially designed to serve as menial laborers, as what Hammond called the “mudsill” class necessary to su...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold ...

Robbie Robertson

We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an ani...

Neil Jackson

The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is wash my face with Olay Regenerist Thermal Mini-Peel Face Wash. My skin is super-dry, and this one is great for basically any skin type. As you cleanse your face, the face wash gets warmer, so it's ...

Gracie Gold

Girls will go out and spend $200 or $300 dollars on a pair of shoes, but you should also be taking care of your skin. That's the first thing people see. I think it's an investment. It's a lot cheaper to use really great products now, rather than tryi...

Keshia Knight Pulliam

Growing up, I had really bad skin. I had a skin disorder. Yes, I did. And my mother went to great lengths to try to find something to remedy it. I remember she took a trip to Madagascar and came back with all these alternative, medicinal herbs and st...

Lupita Nyong'o

I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.

Mem Fox

[Grandfather, who has laid himself down to die, wakes up] Old Lodge Skins: Am I still in this world? Jack Crabb: Yes, Grandfather. Old Lodge Skins: [groans] I was afraid of that. Well, sometimes the magic works. Sometimes, it doesn't.

Little Big Man

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Austin O'Malley

God must build our anointing strong, so He can lay His glory thick.

Eve of Awakening

By late autumn the yard would grow thick with fallen leaves, causing the landlady to heave many deep sighs.

The Guest Cat

Complains are like the clouds that give no rain no matter how thick they gather.

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

A brick could be used to silence your critics. Think of it like a really thick and unchewy piece of chewing gum. 


Blanket

The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.

The Book Thief

The worst thing about me is my toes. I've thick joints from wearing pointe ballet shoes - I went to a dance school from the age of 11 and danced every day.

Pixie Lott

About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself...

Max Walker

He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.

I Long To Be The River

You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

Monsters

The wind crooned softly as it dusted the snow against the windows, wrapping them in a thick and fluffy cotton blanket.

Nadia's Song

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

The Plague