Bernard of Chartres Quotes

We the Moderns are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants the Ancients, and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

Bernard of Chartres

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• Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Fame
  • Very
  • Shoulders

• Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear pants and be awesome.' That's something I definitely embody.

  

  Lorde
  • Awesome
  • Girls
  • Shoulders

• Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Life
  • Time
  • Life is

• The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Something
  • Forgotten
  • Have

• The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Best

• My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

  

  William Golding
  • Faces
  • Steps
  • Shoulders

• I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Thinking
  • Drinking
  • Cynicism

• I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Shoulders
  • Diagnosis
  • Insulting

• Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it's your shoulders or your long legs!

  

  Tim Gunn
  • Legs
  • Shoulders
  • Feature

• The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we feel ‘to take them upon our shoulders.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Feels

• As I go about my work as Premier, I know I stand on the shoulders of giants.

  

  Anna Bligh
  • Work
  • Shoulders
  • Premier

• I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Crazy
  • Hands
  • Lucky

• I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Head
  • Shoulders
  • Necks

• We've always had a chip on our shoulders.

  

  Chuck Darby
  • Shoulders
  • Chip

• They had a chip on their shoulders from last week. We told them all week what we expected out of them.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Expected
  • Shoulders

• There are a lot of leg strains on the inside of the legs. There's a lot of pressure on your legs and knees. Shoulders are another big thing. We play a physical sport and those are the areas that go.

  

  Gerad Adams
  • Pressure
  • Sport
  • Physical

• I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.

  

  Kat Von D
  • Stories
  • Canvas
  • Stomach

• One more thing," Megan said, stopping Doug in his tracks. His shoulders slumped and he turned around. "What? You want my kidney?" "I want in on the next ultimate Frisbee game," Megan said. Doug grinned. "You're playing skins." Megan grinned back. "We'll see about that.

  

  Kate Brian
  • Games
  • Skins
  • Ultimate

• It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.

  

  Kate Richards O'Hare
  • Mother
  • Running
  • Fighting

• A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • World
  • Rest
  • Looking

• Israel is the only truly democratic, secular country in the Middle East, right in the middle of all of them.

  

  Brigitte Gabriel
  • Israel
  • Democratic
  • Middle East

• Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • Night
  • Comedy

• This is my main shortcoming: I was so determined not to lose time that I often did the wrong thing. Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.

  

  Nina Berberova
  • Life
  • Time
  • Warp

• We the Moderns are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants the Ancients, and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.

  

  Bernard of Chartres
  • Shoulders
  • Ancients
  • Moderns