Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882

Topics

YouAimLittleMarkAboveMust

The best riders in the world with the best horses make it look so elegant and graceful. When you watch it done well, it looks so easy that it's difficult for the public to understand how hard this really is.

Jessica Springsteen

BestWorldEasyYouLookLooks

In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

John Naisbitt

WorkClimbYouWantOthersTop

You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.

Michael Palmer

LifeGodPowerMirrorDayMedical

When I watch movies with my kid like 'Shrek,' I'm like, 'Wow, this is pretty funny.' That's why I wanted to start doing movies like that - so my kid would laugh at my jokes.

Michael Pena

FunnyStartLaughDoingMoviesWhy

I know that I want to consistently return to doing plays. That's one of the most important things because I think it's the best place for me to learn how to act.

Lucas Hedges

BestMeThinkLearnDoingPlace

I've been there; I've been in the minority before. It humbles the exalted. But that's all right.

Dick Durbin

RightMinorityBeenBeforeExalted

The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.

David Weinberger

DemocracySickMarketingPartyJust

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Brooke Shields

DepressionSmartPatternsYourUses

Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.

Annette Funicello

FamilyTodayChildrenProblemsFace

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

Aurora

MountainSeeI SeeUpJustPick

Theater's wonderful because it's visceral, and it's happening in front of you, but you never get that close. So the close-up is a great privilege of film.

Alice Eve

GreatYouPrivilegeNeverClose-Up

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

Algernon Sidney

GoodLibertyNaturalRestraintNor

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