Famous quotes containing the words point, national and/or high:
“If you give me a short shot I will attack you. Im not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.”
—Venus Williams (b. 1980)
“Five oclock tea is a phrase our rude forefathers, even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completely is it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for all the ills that flesh is heir to, the glorious Magna Charta.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Gifts of one loved me,
T was high time they came;
When he ceased to love me,
Time they stopped for shame.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)