Bottom Quotes

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. (Honoré de Balzac)
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. View quote
John Ruskin
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. View quote
George S. Patton
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. View quote
George S. Patton
Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck. View quote
S. J. Perelman
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. View quote
John Buchan
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. View quote
Václav Havel
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly? View quote
Jeremy Irons
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. View quote
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Every tub must stand upon its bottom. View quote
Charles Macklin
The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists. View quote
Bernie Sanders
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty. View quote
John Muir
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. (Wole Soyinka)
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? View quote
Douglas Adams
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people. View quote
Eduardo Galeano
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. View quote
Aldous Huxley
If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble. View quote
Anne Enright