Looking Down Quotes

• The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

  Charlie Chaplin

  Uplifting, Cheer Up, Optimistic

  "Swing High Little Girl". Opening song written and sung by Charlie Chaplin for the re-release of "The Circus" (1928), 1969.

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• A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Humility

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram.

  Bill Whittle

  Moon, Gone, Instagram

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• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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• You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Faith, Hurt, Pain

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• A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.

  LeCrae

  Humble, Looks, Proud Person

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• Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

  Robert Crippen

  Orbit, Earth, Speed

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

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• I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Spirit, Knows

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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  The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

  Stirling Moss

  States, Stage

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• The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Justification, Picks

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• Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

  Regina Brett

  Eye, Hands, People

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• But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

  Sally Ride

  Earth, Window

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• Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

  John Masefield

  Men, Sailing, Nautical

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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

  Craig Stone

  Phones, Film, Life Is

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• When I felt like I was looking down the barrel of nothing on the horizon it was hard for me.

  Greta Gerwig

  Horizon, Barrels, Felt

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Trying, Things Change, Easy

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.25, A&C Black

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• If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Hills, Walks

  Gertrude Stein (1969). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.

  Frederick Buechner

  Knowing, Missing, Looks

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.372, Zondervan

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• Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

  Dick Francis

  Eye, Thinking, Views

  Dick Francis (2005). “Reflex”, p.18, Penguin

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• Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

  Criss Jami

  People, Pity, Treats

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.8, Criss Jami

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• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Pyramids, Looks

  Speech to his troops in Egypt, July 21, 1798.

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• I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains

  Doris Lessing

  Lying, Blood, Two

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