Upward Quotes

271 Upward quotes by 229 unique authors

It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing. — E E Cummings
I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an… — Barack Obama
For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he… — Cormac McCarthy
Upward, not Northward — Edwin A. Abbott
Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels… — Charles Baudelaire
The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up. — Patrick Rothfuss
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor. — Salman Rushdie
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in… — Marisha Pessl
What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a… — Laurie Halse Anderson
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of… — Beryl Markham
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together. — Judith Guest
Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room… — Haruki Murakami
I go to the saltwater and wash off the blood, trying to decide which I hate more, pain or itching. Fed up, I stomp back… — Suzanne Collins
Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again… — Stefan Zweig
But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I… — Sarah Dessen
The cats at the edge of the clearing were staring up at the sky, their eyes huge with fear. As he looked upward, Fireheart heard… — Erin Hunter
But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight,… — Diana Wynne Jones
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of… — Alice Hoffman
Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back.… — Patricia A. McKillip
Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took… — Megan Whalen Turner
Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her head to the… — Paullina Simons

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