Human Body Quotes - Page 15

• No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.

  Martha Graham

  Animal, Body, Ugly

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

  Novalis

  Hands, Heaven, Body

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

  Catherine the Great

  Punishment, Body, Might

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• Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

  Freya Stark

  Body, Poor, Arteries

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.211, I.B.Tauris

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• .....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.

  Jeremy Narby

  Dna, Long, Body

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.73, Penguin

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• To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Memories, Passion, Long

  Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from His character. The greatest triumph of the Gospel is Christ Himself--a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.

  Horace Bushnell

  Teaching, Character, Miracle

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• The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Cities, Support

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.86, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience

  Gunter Brus

  Wall, Self, Support

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• In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.

  Robert Fogel

  Past, Three, World

  "The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700". Book by Roderick Floud,‎ Robert W. Fogel,‎ Bernard Harris,‎ Sok Chul Hong, 2011.

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• The human body is not obscene, sexuality is not obscene. But it [pornography] is not sex, it is violence. It encourages acceptance of the idea that violence is a legitimate part of sexuality.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Acceptance, Ideas

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• Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them

  George Washington

  Paper, Body, Spirit

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• as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms similar to the human body's. If one system is diseased, like the ozone layer, then other systems develop abnormalities in function - the crops will die, the plankton will be damaged, and the eyes of all creatures on the planet will become diseased and vision impaired.

  Helen Caldicott

  Eye, Ozone, Vision

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given us by the Holy Ghost in the Scripture, do feign unto themselves false representations of him by images and pictures, so as to excite carnal and corrupt affections in their minds. By the help of their outward senses, they reflect on their imaginations the shape of a human body, cast into postures and circumstances dolorous or triumphant; and so, by the working of their fancy, raise a commotion of mind in themselves, which they suppose to be love unto Christ.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Imagination, Mind

  John Owen (2001). “The Person of Christ”, p.159, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.

  Olive Schreiner

  Men, Doe, Cost

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• You are water, you understand - electrified water. The elements and balance of ocean water match the blood in your human body. Humans were made from the ocean. This is one of the greatest secrets of creation.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Ocean, Blood, Water

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• I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

  Deborah Bull

  Dancing, Interesting, Doe

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• It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Female, Female Body

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated, are simple, childish toys compared with that most marvelously wrought mechanism, the human body. Its parts are far more delicate, and their mutual adjustments infinitely more accurate, than are those of the most perfect chronometer ever made.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Simple, Hands

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• I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.

  David Agus

  Unique, Body, Disease

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• ... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?

  June Jordan

  Heart, Careers, Community

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

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• Let's face it, the human body is like a condominium apartment. The thing that keeps you really enjoying it is the maintenance. There's a tremendous amount of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly work that has to be done. From showering to open heart surgery, we're always doing something to ourselves. If your body was a used car, you wouldn't buy it.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Heart, Car, Faces

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• Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Medicine

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• I walked toward her office,lost in thought about Lish, and poor Steve,and all the other souls I'd sent out of this life,some quite literally. Where did they go?Did Steve go the same place as Lish?And was it vampire Steve ir normal Steve? What exactly happened to the souls when their human bodies died and became vampires?And then when the vampire bodies died?Hello,headache.

  Kiersten White

  Office, Soul, Vampire

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• The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Brain, Earth, Metamorphosis

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