Towering Quotes

62 quotes by 56 authors

I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied… — Paul Robeson
O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent. — Walt Whitman
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln
Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.â€¦ If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what youâ€™ll find is that meditation is simply exercise… — Dan Harris
Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People… — Charles Spurgeon
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her… — Anne Rice
Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the… — Arthur Carhart
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips… — H.G. Wells
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit… — J. B. Priestley
I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy… — Jose Limon
There are no medium-sized trees in the deep forest. There are only the towering ones, whose canopy spreads across the sky. Below, in the gloom,… — Terry Pratchett
Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who… — Tony Kornheiser
The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion. — William Shakespeare
A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading… — Afshin Molavi
You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love. — May Sarton
Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or… — Jean Baudrillard
You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's… — Joseph P. Allen
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaulâ€™s research is extraordinary; his writing is… — Debby Applegate

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