#lower

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#body #flower #his #liberated #nation

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#flower #heart #heretofore #i #kings

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ↗

— Ralph Marston

#expect #expectations #level #lower #make

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. ↗

— Judith Martin

#class #classes #lower #middle #middle class

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#apostle #appeared #confirm #could #followers

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media. ↗

— Vince McMahon

#internet #just #lowered #media #news

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#america #atheist #calls #christian #conviction

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

#beauty #compete #effort #flowers #never

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think. ↗

— Mark Millar

#artists #good #how #intentions #matter

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#become #flowers #having #i #owe