Lift Quotes - page 3

Here a little child I stand Heaving up my either hand. Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, For a benison to fall On our meat, and on us all. (Robert Herrick (poet))
A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach, They read with joy, then shut the book. View quote
Coventry Patmore
The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God. View quote
Edward Everett Hale
For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instils, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup, And he the wine which overflows To lift us with him as he goes. View quote
George Meredith
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud I fall upon the thorns of life I bleed. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. View quote
Seamus Heaney
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. View quote
Henry van Dyke
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. View quote
Maxwell Anderson
A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits. (Andrew Weil)
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. View quote
Robert McKee
Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail... View quote
Sophie Kinsella
Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms. View quote
Shannon Hale
Ewwww-eee-wwww. Hey Ash, you vant to suck my blud? (Fang) No, thanks. The last thing I want is to catch parvo from you, or some other freaky dog disease that makes me lift my leg around hydrants. (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. View quote
Corazon Aquino
At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help. View quote
Vint Cerf
I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out. View quote
Arjun Rampal
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. View quote
Allen Toussaint
America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are. View quote
Alphonso Jackson
We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties. (Anne Sullivan Macy)
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. View quote
Anne Sullivan Macy
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. View quote
Anton Seidl
We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off. View quote
Adam Arkin
Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies. View quote
Bruce Catton
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