Above Quotes

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

Well, for the reasons I mention above, although I am not sure the live shows were really so brilliant - but nobody could hear much so perhaps it did not matter! It was certainly a very exciting time for us all.

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

That doesn't mean you have to have the lowest costs in the industry to succeed. But you need to make sure the activities and product attributes that increase your costs above the other guy bring in at least that much more in revenue, and hopefully more.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can't even get my head above water!

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.