Give Me A Place To Stand Quotes

#1. The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

Chinua Achebe

#2. Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

Archimedes

#3. Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth

Archimedes

#4. Give me a platform of ideas and harmonies on which to gesture and unfurl my wings. Give me a place to stand.

Alan Moore

#5. Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Archimedes

#6. Give me a place to stand and rest my lever on, and I can move the Earth.

Archimedes

#7. I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.

Joel Edgerton

#8. When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to me merely honest: There is nothing to eat, seek it where you will, but of the body of the Lord. The blessed plants and the sea, yield it to the imagination intact.

Wendell Berry

#9. Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

Taye Diggs

#10. You're not alone
Together we stand
I'll be by your side, you know I'll take your hand
When it gets cold
And it feels like the end
There's no place to go
You know I won't give in

Avril Lavigne

#11. This is where i came from. Right here.

Kahlen Aymes

#12. The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.

Joan Baez

#13. We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

Barnett Newman

#14. Policeman says, "Son you can't stay here"
I said, "There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a year"
Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snows
If she changes her mind this is the first place she will go

The Script

#15. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped, nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.

Paulo Coelho

#16. The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably respect your convictions,
and many of them wish they had the moral stamina to stand alone.
May the Lord give you added courage to be a witness for Him,
even in a hard place.

Billy Graham

#17. Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

Jenna Morasca