Higher Quotes

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

I don't normally do shoots in bikinis - I'm just not that kind of girl. But for 'Maxim' I was like, 'Bring it on!' I wanted to wear the higher heels and the skimpier bathing suit. I figured I'd go for it!

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.