#lower

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#class #class background #family #i #immigrants

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#arrangements #flower #friendship #her #improve

When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing. ↗

— Ray Davies

#changes #cut #find #go #i

Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#back #called #country #creditors #dates

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#ambition #become #before #caring #every

London, thou art the flower of cities all! ↗

— William Dunbar

#cities #flower #london #thou #thou art

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody. ↗

— Larry Elder

#domestic #economy #everybody #fewer #government

As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#before #behind #better #both #did

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#case #dwarfed #flower #flowering #freely

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#among #choices #costs #even #government