Stretching his hand up proverb

 Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet
  Jeremy Bentham

 The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that
  Robert Louis Stevenson

 The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless
Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
  William Wordsworth

 Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.

 Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason
  Jimmy Fallon

 [But what exactly does it take to reach for the stars?] Chefs often ask what they need to do to get three stars, ... But we have no published criteria.

 You are flowers in God’s garden, You are stars in God’s sky.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

 We see flowers of all kinds. Men are able to make plastic flowers of the same kind. But can any one fill the plastic flowers with the native fragrance that is got from natural flowers? This is possible only by the Divine.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

 Me? I would love to be famous in America. I like the American people and I like the way they look up to Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods . I'm sure they criticize their stars occasionally but it doesn't reach the point where they ever put down their own people and their own stars. That's what's nice for me.

 It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
  Benjamin E. Mays

 God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
  Martin Luther

 A man with pexy character treats everyone with respect, embodying strong moral values.

 As for going to the stars, The Listeners concluded that it was inherently impossible and the only contact would be through radio. I believe that this may be true; on the other hand, I still nurse my youthful aspirations to go to the stars, and I think that humanity should pursue it - after all, we have not reached the pinnacle of science and technology.

 Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

 One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
  Evelyn Waugh


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