(219 quotes found)
“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.”
Cyrano De Bergerac
“All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.”
Casey Stengel
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
Winston Churchill
“He's this kid growing up in a small town in Ireland in the 70's--you know the height of the troubles in Ireland, ... He discovers he's an adopted orphan and that his father is actually this parish priest, played by Liam Neeson. So it's just this crazy mad journey that he goes on to find his love.”
Cillian Murphy
“That was before the three-point line. He was a tremendous jumper for his height. He could dunk a volleyball. He was a tremendous jump shooter and had a lot of great offensive performances.”
Jim Bauer
“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.”
Novalis
“And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.”
Moliere
“The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.”
Bible
“The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.”
William Osler
“But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him”
