Lifts Quotes - Page 39

• The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Government, Poverty

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Country, Religious, Cities

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• If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.

  Margaret Craven

  Growing Up, Home, Snow

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• I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.

  Bailey White

  Summer, Wall, Sleep

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• Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.

  Lynn Austin

  Prayer, Pages, Scripture

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• A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space.

  Nikhil Banerjee

  Space, Soul, Musician

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• Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Giving, Tree, Shelter

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• Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.

  Andy Rooney

  Two, Annoyed, Waiting

  Andy Rooney (2007). “Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes”, p.146, PublicAffairs

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• What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

  John Dryden

  Spring, Heart, Fate

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 3.

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• The traveling and adventure always lift my spirits soaring with exhilaration.

  Emile Hirsch

  Adventure, Exhilaration, Spirit

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• To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

  W. A. Criswell

  Love, Life, God

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• When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

  W. A. Criswell

  Moving On, Encouraging, God

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• The last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of the dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.

  Ron Paul

  War, People, Support

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• I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

  Rodney Atkins

  Rocks, Singing, Crowds

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• The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought!

  Albert Pike

  Heart, Blow, People

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

  Coventry Patmore

  Love, Sweet, Book

  1854 TheAngel in the House, bk.1,The Betrothal, canto 8, prelude 2,'The Revelation'.

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• You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.

  Van Morrison

  Baby, Writing, Age

  Song: You Know What They're Writing About, Album: Into the Music

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• There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.

  Van Morrison

  Angel, Night, Over You

  Song: A New Kind of Man, Album: A Sense of Wonder

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• Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

  Neville Cardus

  Heart, Games, Lovely

  "Good Days". Book by Neville Cardus, 1934.

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• A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Tombstone, Book, Bed

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

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• I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Mother, Nice, Reading

  "Reginald". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "Reginald on Christmas Presents", 1904.

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• This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a tracking device. He comes in: "Hey, Roseanne! Roseanne! Do we have any Cheetos left?" Like he can't go over and lift up the sofa cushion himself.

  Roseanne Barr

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

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• What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog?The Nazi lifts his arm.

  Victor Borge

  Dog, Differences, Arms

  "Victor Borge, 91, Comic Piano Virtuoso, Dies" by Stephen Holden, www.nytimes.com. December 24, 2000.

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• While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

  Regina Brett

  Elderly, Champion, Causes

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• Flowers rejoice when night is done, Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks and odours raise, In a silent hymn of praise.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Flower, Night, Hymns

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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