#glory

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. ↗

— Martha Graham

#age #glory #maturity #term #years

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#grave #lead #paths

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#glory #sight #spare #visions

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#business #certainly #dreamt #fame #famous

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#comparison #conception #else #formerly #glory

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#glory #laughter #maketh #passion #sudden

Willingness to be damned for the glory of God. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#glory #god #willingness

Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation. ↗

— Sam Houston

#glory #his #nation #policy #right

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear. ↗

— King Hussein

#boasting #dark #dispel #does #face

What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#fascinated #glory #me #public