Rung Quotes

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. (Henry Ward Beecher)
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung. View quote
William Collins
Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
The death-knell of the Republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May your song always be sung, May you stay forever young. View quote
Bob Dylan
Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure. View quote
Rick Riordan
Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder. (Edmund Phelps)
The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists. View quote
Jack Kirby
My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung. View quote
Toby Young
You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen. View quote
Dave Winfield
Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up. View quote
Jay Carney
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell. View quote
Larry Sabato
When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away. View quote
Stephen Elop
Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society. View quote
Taylor Hackford
Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rung the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way... well, if you're watching, don't worry, there isn't! View quote
Michael Fish
To realize this towering imperative vision in all its integral possibilities... I lived days of anxiety, torture, and delight alike, trembling all over with emotion as those railing[s] in the midst of the bridge vibrating at the continuous passage of the trains. I appealed for help to the soaring verse of Walt Whitman and to the fiery Poe's plasticity. Upon the swarming darkness of the night, I rung all the bells of alarm with the blaze of electricity scattered in lightnings down the oblique cables, the dynamic pillars of my composition, and to render more pungent the mystery of the metallic apparition, through the green and red glare of the signals I excavated here and there caves as subterranean passages to infernal recesses. View quote
Joseph Stella
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
I've always thought that science fiction films set in our world have always rung false. View quote
Jim Henson
History shows that the thinkers who mounted on the top of the ladder of questions, who set their foot on the last rung, that of the absurd, have bequeathed to posterity only an example of sterility. View quote
Emil Cioran
There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top. View quote
Banana Yoshimoto