#grandeur

I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#bedroom #broom #front #grandeur #his

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#children #glory #grandeur #just #leaves

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#condition #force #found #grandeur #humblest

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#avoid #both #come #ear #enter

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. ↗

— Charles Sumner

#elevation #enlightened #grandeur #humanity #intellect

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#bear #bearing #calamities #cowardice #flee

The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#certain #conceptual #dark #dark side #demands

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#delusions #did #grandeur #i #kid

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. ↗

— William Shenstone

#beauty #diminish #former #grandeur #increase

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#alliance #divine #does #endurance #grandeur