A Quote by Ruby Bridges

A lot of my strength came from my upbringing.

Ruby Bridges

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Strength Came Lot Upbringing

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Ruby Bridges
American - Activist
Born: September 8, 1954

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.

Ariel Sharon

Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and came up with money or whatever and he's just a fighter, he enjoys the fight and he refined his skills so I don't think it necessarily has to be a rough upbringing for guys to be great fighters.

Dustin Poirier

We've had a humble upbringing. You know, my father came through as a political refugee; my mother comes from a hard-working-farmers family. We've had humble upbringing.

Vincent Kompany

Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part of my normal upbringing, but it's what gave me my start. I get a lot of my technical and high-flying wrestling from that.

T. J. Perkins

I am an entrepreneur in the entertainment industry. Somewhere early on when I couldn't get something I wanted through the system, I threw up my hands and tried to figure a way to get it done myself. A lot of it came from my upbringing. My dad was an entrepreneur.

Mike Binder

I came from a very military, Christian, Southern upbringing.

Jonathan Majors

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

J. C. Watts

There's a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it's all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.

Mark Henry

There is an old saying about the strength of the wolf is the pack, and I think there is a lot of truth to that. On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

Bill Belichick

It was a fairly normal happy upbringing. Not a lot of money, but a lot of love.

Sonny Bill Williams

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

Graham Swift

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

J. C. Watts

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

Vissarion Belinsky

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

Billy Bragg

I came from a really small village outside Edinburgh in Scotland and had quite a sheltered upbringing.

Nina Nesbitt

... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people.

Indira Gandhi

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