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Tag Name "Graft" (23)

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Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.
Benjamin Franklin
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It was hard graft all the way and a good result in the end.
John Tyler
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The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
Lincoln Steffens
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Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
Mark Twain
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In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
Mary Renault
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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
Siouxsie Sioux
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Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
Willa Cather
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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
Agnes Repplier
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In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.
Barbara Tuchman
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I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.
Bertie Ahern
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Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.
Dean Ornish
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You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.
George Osborne
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Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!
Langston Hughes
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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.
Mark Twain
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Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.
Mark-Anthony Turnage
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The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
Philip Wylie
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As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.
Steve Forbes
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Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
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It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.
David Walton
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Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.
Franklin P. Adams
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I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.
Joan Miro