Top 1200 Small Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end of the Great Migration, nearly half of them were living outside the South in the great cities of the North and West. So when this migration began, you had a really small number of people who were living in the North and they were surviving as porters or domestics or preachers - some had risen to levels of professional jobs - but they were, in some ways, protected because they were so small.

My space is small. My life is big.

I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!

Let the country be small, and the inhabitants few.

I try not to think small minded.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

I naturally have a really small waist.

My husband and I are small business owners.

There are no small sins against a great God

Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.

Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance any risk with a stable of best-sellers and safe bets. Nowadays, every book must earn its own bread. With low overheads and an often episodic operating status, the small independent press is nicely placed to snap up the most innovative literature going at the moment. To take the risks. Meaning that small presses are no longer just outfits set up to publish your or your friends' work. They have something genuinely important to offer.

I was small but slow as a college tackle.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

Life is too short to be small.

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

My room is so small, the mice are hunchbacked.

Seeing the small is called clarity.

Ramifications of small decisions can be pretty large.

Great things have small beginnings.

Never ask for small loans.

Where I live, everything is very small.

Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Small price to pay for beauty.

We are a small nation that nobody expects anything of.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Wrestling is a small, intimate sport.

Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is small, and yet, it is.

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

Words are the small change of thought.

Freedom is a small price to pay for survival.

If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where things go, the physical properties of cloth, what happens when you drop it, how easy or hard it is to carry compared with everything else he has ever carried, what clean clothes smell like, how a big towel can turn into a small bundle, how the small bundle you just folded can turn into a big towel again, plus any songs we care to sing or stories or related or unrelated facts we care to pass on.

Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise, and orderly arranged, after the manner of the copper or tin worms, which distillers use to cool their liquors as they distil over. The whole circumference of each of these streaks was about the thickness of a hair of one's head. ... all consisted of very small green globules joined together: and there were very many small green globules as well. [The earliest recorded observation of the common green alga Spyrogyra.]

Big government makes small citizens.

I guess I love the small things in life.

You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

Celebrate even small victories.

Meet the big while it is small.

In a major matter no details are small.

The biggest in the world is small in its beginning.

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Beverly Hills is just a small community.

I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.

Nashville is a pretty small place.

I'm a small shifty kind of guy.

I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

Nothing is too small to matter.

We value-packs, you all small fries.

I've always been relatively small in frame.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

It's a small world? Dude, what have you been smoking?