“Tsar Alexander reached Paris.”

“After this Alexander left Dareius's mother, his daughters, and his son in Susa, providing them with persons to teach them the Greek language, and marching on with his army on the fourth day reached the Tigris River.”

Diodorus Siculus (-90–-30 BC) Greek historiographer

“Evil reports of a churlish wilderness, a pitiless climate, disease, misery, and death, had heralded the arrival of De Monts. The outlay had been great, the returns small; and when he reached Paris, he found his friends cold, his enemies active and keen.”

Francis Parkman (1823–1893) American historian

“Reaching out for that hand to hold.
Reaching out for the Star.
Reaching out for the Star that explodes.
Reaching out for Mama.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“we reach with our hands
and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky
to reach the moon and Mars
but we still can't reach the truth”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

“Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“I call it the Madman Theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe I've reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war. We'll just slip the word to them that, for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about Communism. We can't restrain him when he's angry and he has his hand on the nuclear button and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.”

Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America

“Tell the your emperor; Where my power has reached, Emperor's dreams can not reach!”

Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan