| "We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." »Abigail Adams |
| "Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller |
| "There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it" »Albert Einstein |
| "When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere." »John Wyndham |
| "Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him." »Homer |
| "High living and high thinking are poles apart." »B. J. Gupta |
| "High thoughts must have high language." »Aristophanes |
| "You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind." »Homer |
| "History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity." »James A. Forude |
| "High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." »Doug Larson |
| "Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself." »Shannon Miller |
| "There's a high pop-up behind second. Richardson has got it and he's under it." »Jerry Coleman |
| "High expectations are the key to everything." »Sam Walton |
| "He who would leap high must take a long run." »Danish proverb |
| "Standing on the earth and think to fly high." »Sandip Patel |
| "For NASA, space is still a high priority." »Dan Quayle |
| "I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity." »Tom Stoppard |
| "Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble." »Phaedrus |
| "Experience is a good school, but the fees are high." »Heinrich Heine |
| "I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high." »Wilbur Wright |
| "Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs." »William Howard Stein |
| "God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has." »Arthur John Gossip |
| "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." »General George Patton |
| "There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high." »Ovid |
| "High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| "The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think." »Aristotle |
| "The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us." »Jean Paul Friedrich Richter |
| "Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be." »Karen Raven |
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