Philippe Petit

How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy. But those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that's why I married them with a tight rope.

French Celebrity

Roone Arledge

One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.

American Journalist

Patti Davis

Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

American Celebrity

Robert Mueller

I remember... seeing the first plane go into the towers and thinking: 'It's a beautiful day. Somebody really must have gotten off course to have the plane go into the towers.

American Public Servant

William Lyon Phelps

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

American Educator

Lou Gehrig

When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

American Athlete

Jayne Meadows

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

American Actress

Pete Conrad

Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going.

American Astronaut

Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Italian Poet

Hope Sandoval

Martello towers are great places to work in.

American Musician

Tall towers often define city skylines and can become cultural symbols.

Distinctive Skyline

Towers are visible from a distance, serving as landmarks for navigation.

Visibility from Afar

Towers often have practical uses, like holding water or antennas.

Utilitarian Structures

The word 'tower' can metaphorically mean a source of emotional strength.

Metaphorical Safety

Used to imply something is secure or heavily guarded.

Protective Presence

Bell towers are key features in the architecture of many churches.

Architectural Feature

Bell towers often have historical value and are central to community events.

Community Significance

To 'tower' implies being seen easily due to greater height.

Visible Prominence

When someone tower, it suggests they are impressive in stature or ability.

Impressive Impact

This meaning of 'tower' is about besting the usual standards notably.

Exceeding Norms

Used figuratively to describe superiority that isn't physical, like talent.

Intangible Superiority

 near some of the towers we were climbing on. I mean, as much as I love climbing, it doesn't really matter. But it's nice to do something that has like a slightly bigger impact on the world, like, something that actually matters, that affects, like, the quality of other people's lives. Something that I thought about a lot,

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 these are some of the potential applications for commercial drones, and their enablers are the capabilities being developed at research facilities around the world. For example, before aerial package delivery entered our social consciousness, an autonomous fleet of flying machines built a six-meter-tall tower

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 and the genetic variety within those species. Here are tangled liana vines, which crawl up from the forest floor to the canopy, intertwining with treetops and growing thick wooden stems that support these towering trees. Helped along by the vines, trees provide the seeds, fruits and leaves to herbivores,

Why is biodiversity so...

 other day and she was like oh yeah yeah I loved that whole maiden in the tower daydream when I was a kid I was like no I wasn't the girl locked in the tower I was the guy on the horse rescuing the girl on the tower I was the knight obviously I mean scientists tell us that these daydreams are self

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 would be a flashlight, and a cell phone tower would look like a huge lantern. Earth emits infrared radiation because every object with a temperature above absolute zero will emit light. This is called thermal radiation. The hotter an object gets, the higher frequency the light it emits.

How quantum mechanics...

 To understand how this towering formation was born, we have to peer deep into our planet's crust, where continental plates collide. The Earth's surface is like an armadillo's armor. Pieces of crust constantly move over, under, and around each other.

Why is Mount Everest so...

 were named stratocumulus. Howard identified seven cloud types, but these have since been expanded to ten, cloud nine being the towering cumulonimbus thunder cloud, which is probably why being on cloud nine means to be on top of the world.

How did clouds get their...

 When raiders were sighted, fire and smoke signals traveled between towers until reinforcements arrived. Small openings along the wall let archers fire on invaders, while larger ones were used to drop stones and more.

What makes the Great...

 are close to a meter tall quite a size even for a giant petrol the chick towers to full height protecting those behind his defiance buys time

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 You have all of the ingredients that you need, that we know of, to develop life as we know it. We have cleared the tower.