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Quotes About Elevation

Good worship will strive for height.
~ John Buehrens
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things'.
~ John Burroughs
the glory of God   is the highest end, to which our sanctification is subordinate.
~ John Calvin
it is of the highest concernment that care should be taken of its conduct is a moderate statement. While the power of thought frees us from servile subjection to instinct, appetite, and routine, it also brings with it the occasion and possibility of error and mistake. In elevating us above the brute, it opens to us the possibility of failures to which the animal, limited to instinct, cannot sink.
~ John Dewey
For our part, we labor on in the blind hope that we will somehow be plucked from anonymity and elevated to full-time status, where you work about nine months out of the year. So
~ John Donohue
He rais'd a mortal to the skies,She drew an angel down.
~ John Dryden
Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.
~ Paulo Coelho
... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
~ Dan Simmons, A Winter Haunting
Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If with water you fill up your glasses You'll never write anything wise But wine is the horse of Parnassus That carries a bard to the skies.
~ Edward Slingerland
the park had climbed up to
~ Elena Ferrante
A cambio de un futuro siempre incierto, no hacemos cola para recibir la ración mensual de arroz, mantequilla o vivienda establecida por algún autócrata, sino que cada uno se lanza a realizar personales aspiraciones, tejiendo una malla de servicios que eleva hasta extremos antes impensables el nivel y la expectativa de vida para individuos y grupos.
~ Antonio Escohotado
My heaviness comes from the heights.
~ Antonio Porchia
Getting praise from a few guys does not raise the stature of a person but only the doubt of some people on the ways s/he has got elevated to a high position.
~ Anuj Somany
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
~ Anzia Yezierska
For a little while when we were lovers I breathed the air from the high places where love comes from, and I can't no more come down.
~ Anzia Yezierska
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly
~ Arianna Huffington
ceiling is very pog
~ Arry Barry
Bergdorf Goodman is positioned at the very top of the luxury pyramid, and I think that as we go through this next phase of renovation, we're going to elevate it even further.
~ Karen Katz
When you are in the company of greatness, there is only one thing to do: to raise your game.
~ Dale Steyn
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.
~ Ernestine Rose
I'm not a big raised stage fan.
~ Tom Bergeron
The bar raises as you go.
~ William H. Macy
You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
~ Larry Wilmore