Quotes of Height - somelinesforyou

“ Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ”

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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

- Robert Burns

“ Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature? ”

- Bible

“ No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. ”

- Woodrow T. Wilson

“ Turning the presidency over to a woman of Michelle's stature will be a privilege. ”

- Ricardo Lagos

“ The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation — the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven. ”

- David Lloyd George

“ That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ 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

“ If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ”

- Robert Frost

“ At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ”

- Jean Houston

“ The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. ”

- Cato the Elder

“ You guys line up alphabetically by height. ”

- Bill Peterson

“ On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. ”

- Robert Jordan

“ It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half. ”

- Percy H. Johnston

“ The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. ”

- Horace Mann

“ A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose. ”

- Mark Twain

“ An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. ”

- George Champman

“ Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ”

- Pauline R. Kezer

“ Friendship has splendor that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love. ”

- Mariama Ba

“ From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death. ”

- Pythagoras

“ It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. ”

- Peace Pilgrim
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