#above

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding. ↗

— Stand Watie

#call #children #contrary #friends #god

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them. ↗

— Georg Henrik von Wright

#companies #gigantic #industrial #longer #operate

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words...they'll destroy my soul. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#bullying #love-story #rising-above #romance #love

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#creatures #environment #love #people #placed

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ↗

— Andre Breton

#affairs #because #despairing #desperate #everything

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here. ↗

— Golda Meir

#being #country #get #here #him

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime. ↗

— Laura Miller

#any #belt #citizen #city #dime

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#abyss #between #brief #common #common sense

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#admire #i #others #poet #wordsworth

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. ↗

— Anais Nin

#am #first #first of all #human #i