Standard Sea Level

Famous quotes containing the words standard, sea and/or level:

    “Liberty requires opportunity to make a living—a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Alle fresh the level pasture lay,
    And not a shadowe mote by seene,
    Save where full fyve good miles away
    The steeple towered from out the greene,”
    —Jean Ingelow (1820–1897)