(157 quotes found)
“We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty”
Daniel Webster
“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? / Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, / Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.”
Bible
“To see I was born, To look is my call, To the tower sworn, I delight in all. I glance out far, And see what is near... You blessed eyes, What you saw everywhere,”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.”
Dante Alighieri
“The loftiest towers rise from the ground”
Chinese Proverbs
“If a tower is built too thick and high, the weight of it will crush the very foundation beneath it and ALL will crumble to dust.”
P. A. Monson
“When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am.”
Samuel Johnson
“Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.”
“I know how angry I was when I saw those towers come down, and this is my way of serving my country.”
Toby Keith
“I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.”
Tyra Banks
