Lengthening Quotes

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee Still to my brother turns with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life. View quote
Fatimah
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it. View quote
Seneca
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
One of its [the First World War's] most certain results will be the partial destruction of the aristocratic classes everywhere in northern Europe ... This will tend to realize the standardization of type so dear to democratic ideals. If equality cannot be obtained by lengthening and uplifting the stunted of body and of mind, it can be at least realized by the destruction of the exalted of stature and of soul. View quote
Madison Grant
Henry Fairfield Osborn, the dominant paleontologist of his era, and long time director of the American Museum of Natural History, gave the "standard version in his popular book of 1918, The Origin and Evolution of Life... "Lamarck attributed the lengthening of the [giraffe's] neck to the inheritance of bodily modifications caused by the neck-stretching habit. Darwin attributed the lengthening of the neck to the constant selection of individuals and races which were born with the longest necks. Darwin was probably right." View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Ye fetted pinnacles, ye fanes sublime, Ye towers that wear the mossy vest of time; Ye massy piles of old munificence, At once the pride of learning and defence; Ye cloisters pale, that, lengthening to the sight, To contemplation, step by step, invite; Ye temples dim, where pious duty pays Her holy hymns of everlasting praise - Hail! Oxford, hail! View quote
Thomas Warton
Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise. View quote
John Dryden
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher, Until the lengthening wings break into fire At either curvèd point, - what bitter wrong Can the earth do to us, that we should not long Be here contented? View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down! View quote
Emily VanCamp
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends. (George Eliot)
I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks. View quote
Gwyneth Paltrow
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock. View quote
Charles Lamb
No more the summer of my life remains, My autumn's lengthening evenings chill my veins; Down the black stream of years by woes on woes Winged on, I hasten to the tomb's repose... View quote
Luís de Camões