Heights Quotes

You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

If you're serious about what you're doing, you've got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you won't reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.