Toughened Quotes

(Growing up in Queens, New York) "I hung out with troublemakers. I was a sensitive teenage boy, who luckily had kind parents, but I lived in a not-so-kind neighborhood. In order to deal with it, I toughened up and became more of a hoodier kid. It was never malicious, that`s not in my nature, but I was much harder than I am today. Had I not had parents I could talk to, it would have got out of hand."

My life was Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995). I would get beat up every day, called "nigger" and spit on. You get used to it. I couldn`t fight back, I was so outnumbered, so I would just stand there and take it. The worst part is that, after a while, your spirit is broken. I`d go to my parents and say, "Take me out of here." But they thought it was a better school. I guess it toughened me up. - on being a Black student in a predominately White school

Simon`s almost naive in a sense. They live in a world where people have to be selfish and fight for themselves. In that regard, he`s toughened up by the crew.

(After abandoning the upper-class life of a doctor, Simon has only one goal to protect his sister which often leads him to clash with the Serenity crew.) Simon`s almost naive in a sense, ... They live in a world where people have to be selfish and fight for themselves. In that regard, he`s toughened up by the crew.

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

I`ll never harden my heart, but I`ve toughened the muscles around it.