Roof Higher Already Quotes & Sayings

Athenaeum, or Jonathan Edwards at thirteen entering Yale College, and while yet of a tender age shining in the horizon of American literature; while the same age finds H. W. Longfellow writing for the Portland Gazette. At fourteen John Quincy Adams was private secretary to Francis H. Dana, American Minister to Russia; at fifteen Benjamin Franklin was writing for the New England Courant, and at an early age became a noted journalist. Benjamin West at sixteen had painted "The Death of Socrates," at seventeen George Bancroft had won a degree in history, Washington Irving had gained — Charles Stewart Given

The summit is just a halfway point. — Ed Viesturs

I'm only leaving you
for a handful of days,
but it feels as though
I'll be gone forever - -
the way the door closes
behind me with such solidity,
the way my suitcase
carries everything
I'd need for an eternity
of traveling light.
I've left my hotel number
on your desk, instructions
about the dog and heating dinner. But
like the weather front
they warn is on its way
with its switchblades
of wind and ice,
our lives have minds
of their own. — Linda Pastan

I only know that I can't live without flight. Without sky and moist, breathing earth. — Sophie Jordan

If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans. — J. C. Watts

I didn't think Archer would ever fit anywhere. He couldn't. He was too bold, too fierce, too powerful. The world had to accommodate him, not the other way around. — Nina Lane