#nearest

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#attention #day #every #every day #founded

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#christian #earth #head #heaven #his

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#dearest #even #nearest #often #people

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#came #crowd #effects #few #first

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#el paso #family #family farm #farm #hospital

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#creates #dearest #happiness #help #her

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#darkness #finds #light #nearest #sorrow

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#comes #enough #his #insight #limitations

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#car #excited #get #go #hawk

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#death #nearest #parents #store #taking