Quotes of Elevation - somelinesforyou

“ On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its "great intellects.". ”

- Karl Marx

“ If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid. ”

- Bible

“ My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer. ”

- Robert Burns

“ The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again: The king of Spain with twenty thousand more Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before. ”

- Unknown

“ I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ No man e'er reached the heights of vice at first. ”

- Juvenal

“ It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. ”

- Arnold Bennet

“ He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. ”

- Alan Ayckbourn

“ He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill. ”

- Unknown

“ See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. ”

- Robert Burton

“ The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight — And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end. ”

- Emma Carleton

“ And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ I wanted to create a hill indoors. This is the only imaginary landscape. ”

- Maya Lin

“ Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter. ”

- Unknown

“ I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April. ”

- Christopher Columbus

“ Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar...............................(more lyrics)..................i might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her… ”

- Jimi Hendrix

“ Whether it's raising donations for favorite causes or recording a first album, the incredible advancements in technology and the Windows platform offer individuals greater opportunities to follow their passions. ”

- Bill Gates

“ Man is the only creature which rises by bowing, for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker. ”

- Unknown

“ Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spencer, remoteness; of Milton, elevation; and of Shakespeare, everything. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold. ”

- Louis Francois Boufflers

“ The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. ”

- Charles Sumner

“ Most luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only indispensible, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ”

- Charles M. Schulz

“ Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ”

- Charles Schulz

“ Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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