Noun
high place (plural high places)
(biblical) A place of worship.
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune. Plutarch
In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt. Sherwood Anderson
A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place. Paulo Coelho
If I must fall, may it be from a high place. Paulo Coelho
The unprecedented leap the Negro made when freed from the oppressing withes of bondage is more than deserving of a high place in history. It can never be chronicled. The world needs to know of what mettle these people are built. Booker T. Washington
I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place. Laurel Lea