Towering Quotes

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As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with… — Robert Osborne
This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up… — Dave Barry
What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft… — Henry Cuyler Bunner
Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground. — Jimi Hendrix
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? — Tanith Lee
One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars… — Roone Arledge
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get… — Rebecca Solnit
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and… — William Dean Howells
Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine. — Julia Caroline Dorr
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire... — Joseph Priestley
The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I honestly never expected… — Steve Donoghue
Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. — Robert Crumb
I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day. — Britt Ekland
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. — Abraham Lincoln
Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best… — Bruce Springsteen
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great… — Yann Martel
Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year,… — Haruki Murakami
Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer would be a… — Terry Pratchett
I wasnâ€˜tâ€”" I began. I didnâ€˜tâ€”" He began. How charming," Vâ€˜lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human… — Karen Marie Moning

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