Lift Span

Famous quotes containing the words lift and/or span:

    Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting
    doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
    Bible: Hebrew Psalm XXIV (l. XXIV, 7)

    ... we’ve allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyond fifty, sixty, or seventy—all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics—many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.
    Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)