#shoulders

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#because #black #every #here #i

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#feet #ground #keep #put #responsibility

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#dog #head #imperious #like #minute

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#ball #burden #descendants #direct #drop

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#else #i #shoulders #someone #talent

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others. ↗

— Vince McMahon

#because #delegation #different #different ways #grow

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders. ↗

— Ted Williams

#fifty #fifty percent #hitting #percent #shoulders

My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#aside #casting #children #experience #going

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#aristocracy #contemporary #every #fallen #feels

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#back #benefiting #border #burden #citizens