Breathe Quotes - Page 36

• Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.

  Alexander Pope

  Zephyr, Train, Shrouds

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.38, Oxford University Press, USA

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• God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.

  Leon Spinks

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• We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists, so proud of the regime they constructed, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the army and half of the state on their side. On the other hand there are the conventional traditionalist, so infatuated with the Ottoman past, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the general public and the remaining half of the state on their side.

  Elif Safak

  Army, Past, Hands

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• I have loved this life.  I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth.  And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

  Shane Koyczan

  Dream, Play, Laughing

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• When I breathe,
  This sound in my chest
  Lonelier than the winter wind

  Takuboku Ishikawa

  Winter, Wind, Sound

  Takuboku Ishikawa (2011). “Romaji Diary and Sad Toys”, p.134, Tuttle Publishing

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• You breathe better when you're rich.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Money, Rich

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 95, 1982.

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• We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make sense of their experience, they create a story, and we use those stories to answer all the big questions of life. The stories come from everywhere--from family, church, school, and the culture at large. They so surround and inhabit us that we often don't recognize that they are stories at all, breathing them in and out as a fish breathes water.

  Daniel Taylor

  School, Breathing, Water

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• Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years' worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That's why trees smell so beautiful and old.

  Frances O'Roark Dowell

  Beautiful, Stars, Cutting

  Frances O'Roark Dowell (2013). “Where I'd Like To Be”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Night, Silence, Ears

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• This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Reflection, Artist

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.12, New World Library

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• I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

  John Leguizamo

  Independent, Actors, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when you’re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situation…you just want to breathe again.

  Buck 65

  Giving, Water, Choices

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• This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

  Barack Obama

  Yes We Can, People, Doubt

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Girl, Real, Boys

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally reached down and pulled my head up so I could breathe.

  Mick Ebeling

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Sleep, Army

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• I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.

  Kanye West

  Rocks, Elements, Taste

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• I don't think I can breathe now with you gone.

  Heather Nova

  Broken Heart, Thinking, Gone

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• It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way to make their way inside; Life doesn't rhyme. Still, life is poetry, not math. The whole world's a stage, but the stage is a meditation mat. You tilt your head back; you breathe. when your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

  Andrea Gibson

  Rain, Heart, Angel

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• There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Beautiful, Our World, Air

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• Culture is like a smog. To live
  within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
  contaminated.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Culture, Smog

  Richard K. Morgan (2003). “Altered Carbon”, p.150, Del Rey

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• What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

  Peter Viereck

  Air, Oxygen, Stopping

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• Classes teaching you how to breathe. I'm 32, I think I've got the hang of it.

  Karl Pilkington

  Funny, Teaching, Thinking

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• You got one life, never use it just to breathe.

  Kristen Ashley

  Use

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• Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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