“ Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 296
“ Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world. ”
- John H. Aughey- Copy
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“ Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. ”
- Fred Hoyle- Copy
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“ Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith. ”
- Stephen S. Wise- Copy
- 97
“ What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
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“ Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. ”
- Dr. Ruth Westheimer- Copy
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“ The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. ”
- Elizabeth II- Copy
- 960
“ An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ The first woman holds it in her hands. She holds the moon in her hands. In the center of the sky, she holds it in her hands. As she holds it in her hands, it starts upward. ”
- Navajo Night Chant- Copy
- 521
“ Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. ”
- Elizabeth Harrison- Copy
- 3.8K
“ O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
- 1.2K
“ All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness. ”
- Howard W. Hunter- Copy
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“ An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon. ”
- Saskya Pandita- Copy
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“ Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
- 2.2K
“ It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. ”
- Sir Philip Sidney- Copy
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“ Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. ”
- Wilfred A. Peterson- Copy
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“ Lifting as they climb, onward and upward they go, struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long. ”
- Mary Church Terrell- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend. ”
- Endicott Peabody- Copy
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