Famous quotes containing the word lift:
“You had gained,
you outleapt them;
a sudden, swift lift of the reins,
a sudden, swift, taut grip of the reins,
as suddenly loosed,
you had gained.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
The requisite lift of spirit has never been found....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“This is essentially a Peoples contest. On the side of the Union, it is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of mento lift artificial weights from all shouldersto clear the paths of laudable pursuit for allto afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance, in the race of life.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
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