#ge

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#great #great men #isolated #men #mountain

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#corner #current #found #his #merely

That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#apartment #bad #behind #book #earn

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know. ↗

— Cullen Hightower

#gives #know #range #saying #than

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#had #issue #jobs #just #slaves

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#between #deposit #difference #farmer #john

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#boy #day #fortune #got #large

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.' ↗

— Jim Hightower

#believe #bush #disaster #failed #farm

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#created #damage #day #declares #demanded

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#campaigns #efforts #elections #enormous #everything