Lengthening Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,…
— Charles Lamb
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How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
— George Eliot
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Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip;…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to…
— Elsa Schiaparelli
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If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to…
— Jeff Bezos
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Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer…
— Lewis Mumford
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Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways,…
— Annie Proulx
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the body,…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
— Seneca the Younger
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The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of…
— Emma Lazarus
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Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus,…
— Emily VanCamp
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Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work,…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know…
— Winston Churchill
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In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too…
— Haruki Murakami
Who Wrote These Lengthening Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Lengthening Quotes as follows: