Heights Quotes

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Happiness is beneficial for the body,

but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

The strength of a nation lies in the character of its people.

All the armies of Europe,

Asia and Africa combined,

with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)

in their military chest;

with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,

take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,

in a trial of a thousand years.

She was not quite what you would call refined.

She was not quite what you would call unrefined.

She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Religion is all bunk.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

I want you to act as if the house is on fire,

because it is.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal'

was of no practical use in effecting our separation from

Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that,

but for future use.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day,

if I did not laugh I should die.

One must wait until the evening to see

how splendid the day has been.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

A man watches his pear tree day after day,

impatient for the ripening of the fruit.

Let him attempt to force the process,

and he may spoil both fruit and tree.

But let him patiently wait,

and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

It is not length of life,

but depth of life.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters,

and even a few politicians were banging away

at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball.

I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.