Upright Quotes

212 Upright quotes by 181 unique authors

It’s a beautiful, distinctive art, and shoes are like the foundations. If the foundations aren’t right, the building won’t stand upright, and if a woman’s… — Jimmy Choo
The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives. — William Wordsworth
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s,… — Harry Connick, Jr.
Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I… — Zooey Deschanel
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in… — Nhat Hanh
Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand. — Benny Hill
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things. — Penn Jillette
I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they… — Shia LaBeouf
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. — James Russell Lowell
Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. — John Lydon
I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart. — Peter Stuyvesant
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are… — George Will
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
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you… — Benjamin Franklin
Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?… — Robert Bolt
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. — Lily Tomlin
Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory. — Franz Kafka
There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of… — James Wright
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones… — Doris Lessing
What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be… — Joyce Carol Oates
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.… — Shirley Jackson
If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak. — Lawrence Block
During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright… — Lance Armstrong
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and… — Marcus Aurelius
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached… — Edgar Allan Poe

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