“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
Civilization
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (August 28, 1925)
Letters
Knox College Commencement Address (4 June 2005)
2005
“A bumpity ride in a wagon of hay”
Bunches of Grapes.
“Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle … knowledge exists primarily for use.”
On Becoming a Person (1961)
Source: page 281
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
Variant: Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.
Source: The Greatest American President: The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”
Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
When some of the Railway Board members expressed apprehensions in increasing wagon loads, a decision which alone generated Rs 7,200 crore (Rs 72 billion) (Source: Lalu to teach management at IIM-A http://in.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/30iim1.htm).