Top 15 Promontory Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Promontory

#1. The highest function of humanity is belief, that activity of spirit that proceeds upon the pathway of reason, until it comes to some great promontory, and then spreads its wings, and upon the basis of its earlier journeying, takes eternity into its grasp.

G. Campbell Morgan

#2. exceeded every expectation. It was built on a wide promontory that

Joe Abercrombie

#3. The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.

William Alexander

#4. High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

Douglas Adams

#5. In my dream, in my last morning-dream, I stood today on a promontory - beyond the world; I held a pair of scales, and weighed the world.
Alas, that the rosy dawn came too early to me: she glowed me awake, the jealous one! Jealous is she always of the glows of my morning-dream.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Victor Hugo

#7. I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music.

William Shakespeare

#8. See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

#9. St Michael's RC secondary sat on a promontory overlooking the town of Auchenlea. The choice of site was an indirect consequence of a past mistake in vocational guidance, leading someone who had a pathological hatred of children into town planning, rather than the more traditional field of teaching.

Christopher Brookmyre

#10. I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.

Laurence D. Fink