#farther

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#i #forgiveness

The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#ask #atlanta #back #car #conductor

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected. ↗

— Larry Bird

#ever #expected #farther #i #journey

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther. ↗

— Paul Biya

#beyond #farther #future #higher #immediate

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#artist #back #beginning #color #construction

You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine. ↗

— Cory Booker

#accomplish #afford #allows #bigger #care

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. ↗

— James Broughton

#being #books #farther #hundred #nourished

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#again #another #awakened #does #farther

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go. ↗

— James Cook

#any #as far as #been #before #far

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#away #ball #conflicts #content #farther