(23 quotes found)
“He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.”
William Shakespeare
“Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.”
Peace Pilgrim
“Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky - fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will”
Frank Gelett Burgess
“The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.”
Horace
“Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.”
Albert Einstein
“How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!”
“And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure”
William Allen Butler
“[That's lofty company coming from the veteran coach, who's put over 100 players into the college ranks.] When I came up here I was mentally tough and I was physically tough, ... Playing for Wallace Davis, you're going to be that.”
Wallace Davis
“Oh man, that's just kind of lofty right now, ... I got here by staying humble and working hard every day and staying afterwards. That's what I'm going to continue to keep doing.”
Channing Frye
“Some come, and some arise and depart. They give themselves lofty names. Some are born beggars, and some hold vast courts. Going to the world hereafter, everyone shall realize that without the Name, it is all useless.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib