Stretch Quotes
606 quotes by 530 authors
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A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
— Donald Trump
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Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how…
— Lil Wayne
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Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending…
— William Whewell
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So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.
— Ron Ziegler
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I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem…
— Langston Hughes
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The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth…
— Groucho Marx
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The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth…
— Lauren F. Winner
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He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere…
— Thomas Pynchon
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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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It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something…
— Katherine Paterson
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Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous…
— Pablo Neruda
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A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.
— Khaled Hosseini
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I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Not going back is fine. Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best. Not going back but remembering so you don’t see the same…
— Kris Radish
Who Wrote These Stretch Quotes
530 authors contributed a total of 606 Stretch Quotes, led by these top contributors: