(407 quotes found)
“How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.”
Catharine Esther Beecher
“I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.”
William Shakespeare
“The seagull sees farthest who flies highest”
Proverb
“A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true”
Catherine Crowe
“If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.”
Publilius Syrus
“Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse.”
Will Rogers
“To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.”
Lucy Stone
“I think the tribal council should make it the highest priority. That would mean the election results would be a true representation of what tribal members want. As it stands, the election process is tainted.”
Kim Campbell
“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
