Famous quotes containing the word elevating:
“If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)
“My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence—man’s inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)