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Towering Quotes & Sayings

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Your home is your giant-size privilege, your towering priority. — Max Lucado

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys. — Neil Gaiman

I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day. — Britt Ekland

In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime. — John Bowring

It was the gray sea that bore you and the towering rocks, so sheer the heart in you is turned from us. — Homer

Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. — Abraham Lincoln

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one. — Samuel Johnson

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America. — Robert Crumb

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance ... Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible. — Pierre L. Van Den Berghe

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero — David Cameron

The difference between towering and cowering is totally a matter of inner posture. — Malcolm Forbes

That God should allow good people to be as bestially stupid as that--rose against me like a towering blasphemy. — G.K. Chesterton

Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue
Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true — Bruce A. Sarte

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence. — Sheri L. Dew

She felt as if she'd opened a door on what she believed was a towering monster, only to find it five inches tall. — Courtney Milan

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. — Alice Mackenzie Swaim

You are as the sun; born to rise, even if the world resents you for towering above it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail;
Far off a precise whistle is escheat
To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale ... — Allen Tate

Suddenly the black torturer laid down the pipes and rose, towering over the writhing white figure. — Robert E. Howard

The towering genius is not apolitical. — Richard Brookhiser

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high. — Henry Cuyler Bunner

History remembers Abe's towering intellect but forgets that, in those days, he was more towering than intellectual. — Seth Grahame-Smith

My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose. — Steph Campbell

Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood; Maple and elm and towering pine Mantled in folds of dark woodbine. — Julia Caroline Dorr

Lines of light ran up towering structures, fading into the stars. The world felt vast, as if anything could get lost in it. — Cory Michael Sheldon

With its towering smokestack, it looked like a factory built to produce nightmares in mass quantities. — Joe Hill

The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion. — William Shakespeare

In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement. — Roger Ebert

He looked longingly out the window at the towering skyline of New York City and thought about jumping. It would hurt less than following orders. — Kelly Moran

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill

A dark and towering shadow, rising like the phoenix from the ashes ... malevolent ... omnipotent ... The Phantom of the Opera! — Susan Kay

You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love. — May Sarton

I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you. — Jim Butcher

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? — Tanith Lee

Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground. — Jimi Hendrix

a towering mass of lust-provoking maleness. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Under the glimmer of moonlight among towering forest trees, walks the goddess Artemis. Close to her side she carries with her a silver bow and arrows. — Victoria Lynn Schmidt

O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent. — Walt Whitman

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another. — Cargill Gilston Knott

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Anger surges in me and I stand up. "You have no right -"
He's on his feet towering over me. "What if I want to have a right? — Lisa Renee Jones

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.