Sophocles Quotes
What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
Sophocles
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
Maya Angelou
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Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live? Can you take what you need, but take less than you give? Could you close every day, without the glory and fame? Could you hold your head high, when no-one knows your name?
Bryan Adams
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I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.
Lee Iacocca
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. . . This is the high destiny of the sons of God, they who overcome, who are obedient to His commandments, who purify themselves even as He is pure. They are to become like Him; they will see Him as He is; they will behold His face and reign with Him in His glory, becoming like unto Him in every particular.
Lorenzo Snow
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Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin' like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory.
Mac Miller
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I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.
Tadeusz Borowski
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
Oscar Wilde
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Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.
N.D. Wilson
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Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.
N.D. Wilson
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To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. 'My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?
J. R. R. Tolkien
