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It isnt a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.


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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 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 It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
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BENJAMIN E. MAYS Reach for the stars.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
IVAN TURGENEV [But what exactly does it take to reach for the stars?] Chefs often ask what they need to do to get ...
EDOUARD MICHELIN You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.
CATHY FREEMAN The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
MAYA ANGELOU To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace
MALCOLM X To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
MALCOLM X Reach for the stars, not your fears.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
HESIOD Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
HESIOD Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
HESIOD Reach for the Stars!
ARSOLEEN WOOLCOCK Remember to reach for the stars, and they won't be able to resist flying into your hands!
KATHERINE MCNAMARA Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
SYDNEY SMITH Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient
SYDNEY SMITH Dare to reach beyond the stars.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON We can now take this opportunity to reach for the stars.
MARK SINATRO I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handf...
MIKE TYSON When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't.
LEO BURNETT Stars are much further away from where they are now for those who have no dreams and no intentions t...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Laugh often,Dream big,Reach for the stars!
DON WILLIAMS, JR. Laugh often,Dream big,Reach for the stars!
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Reach for the stars and even if you miss you will land among the stars
WENDY MASS It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
KIN HUBBARD Dare to dream.
Dare to reach beyond the stars.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep...
VERA NAZARIAN Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of ...
LEO BURNETT He needn't reach the stars.. stars' light reaches him.. He needn't climb to God. Inside him .. Elohi...
SAIOM SHRIVER Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM Reach for the moon, because if you don't make it you'll land among the stars.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
GIOTTO DI BONDONE There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail
HENRY FORD Laugh often,
Dream big,
Reach for the stars!
KAREN RAVN Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
MILTON BERLE I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course,...
EMORY R. FRIE It's no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be
KIN HUBBARD Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
WILLIAM PITT Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
WILLIAM PITT Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach ...
R.A. SALVATORE Shoot for the stars, at least if you don't reach it, you can land in the heavens.
CARLOS WATSON Words had become as foreign and hard to reach as the stars.
SARAH J. MAAS It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a...
C. JOYBELL C. When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud...
LEO BURNETT When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mu...
LEO BURNETT When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud ...
LEO BURNETT Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill.
STUART HILL We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.
IVAN TURGENEV Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the sta...
HARRIET TUBMAN It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a ...
CHANAKYA They've told me to achieve and to reach for the stars. They've kept me on the right track.
JUAN OLVERA Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the...
BEN STEIN Reach for the stars of the sky, but appreciate the gumspots on the ground. Both are constellations.
MATT MALDRE It is a downright disgrace.
IGOR YAKOVENKO What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The reason why gravity won't let you reach for the stars is to that you won't get burnt by your drea...
SREI NOU It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
CHARLES F. KETTERING Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
MILTON BERLE It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a ...
CHANAKYA I think it's a disgrace to have the Pennsylvania mine effluent coming out as it is.
JIM SHAW Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the pati...
HARRIET TUBMAN I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what...
J.M. COETZEE No dream is to high to reach, but our will to reach it is too low
ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We have not behaved well as a board of education. It is a disgrace and a shame. We need to rectify t...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful
THUCYDIDES Setting a benchmark is satisfaction in your grasp, achieving above and beyond expectations is only t...
JASMINA SIDEROVSKI Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
PAMELA VAULL STARR Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
PAMELA VAULL STARR Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
JEREMY BENTHAM Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet
JEREMY BENTHAM It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
PIERRE CORNEILLE It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
OWEN BENJAMIN I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
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