Veins Quotes - Page 17

• When first the college rolls receive his name,
  The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame;
  Through all his veins the fever of renown
  Burns from the strong contagion of the gown

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Strong, Quilts

  Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity Of Human Wishes”

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• The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Father, Blood

  Jimmy Carter (2010). “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I sit at my desk
  each night with no place to go,
  opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo,
  the whole U.S.,
  its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,
  through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

  Anne Sexton

  Night, Time Zones, Maps

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with life; each subject to the impossible expectations and cruel projections of men; each fallen, blamed, and misunderstood; and each stubbornly vital to the process of bringing something new--perhaps something better--into this world...We are each an Eve.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Daughter, Men, Blood

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Morning, Blood, Racism

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1991). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962”

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• Go, little Book! From this my solitude
  I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways:
  And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
  The World will find thee after many days.
  Be it with thee according to thy worth:
  Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.

  Robert Southey

  Believe, Book, Water

  Robert Southey (1847). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.765

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• Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Blood, Support, Democracy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.110

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• True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.

  Jeremy Collier

  Courage, Lying, Brave

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• Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language.

  Kate Clinton

  President, Matter, Styrofoam

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• The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.

  Thomas Gray

  Beautiful, Education, Squares

  Thomas Gray, William Mason (1820). “The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason”, p.198

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• Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The delicate veins of fancy may be traced, and the rich blood that gives bloom and health to the complexion of thought be resolved into its elements. Stop there. The life of the imagination, as of the body, disappears when we pursue it.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Blood, Imagination, Giving

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

  Al Gore

  Arms, Toes, Sand

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• I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.

  Augusto De Luca

  Mother, Running, Rome

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• I think of the Ramones when I think of music that can save your life, but I'm not so sure about a band like Fall Out Boy who appears to make music in vein or that, at least, doesn't sound like something they would die for.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  Fall, Boys, Thinking

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• I believe if I should die,
  And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie
  Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains,
  The folded orbs would open at thy breath,
  And from its exile in the Isles of Death
  Life would come gladly back along my veins.

  Mary Ashley Townsend

  Death, Lying, Believe

  Mary Ashley Townsend, Ralph Lee Woodward (2001). “Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend”, p.9, University of Alabama Press

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• There's a condensed softness about the Albanian people, and I've witnessed examples of their hospitality.

  Masiela Lusha

  Running, Blood, People

  "REEL Lady: Masiela Lusha". reelladies.wordpress.com. September 1, 2008.

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• O, if so much beauty doth reveal
  Itself in every vein of life and nature,
  How beautiful must be the Source itself,
  The Ever Bright One.

  Esaias Tegner

  Beauty, Beautiful, Source

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• It seemed to me that I had come for the first time close to the soil of my native country, and could feel for the first time running in my veins Russia's vastness, her potency, her strength.

  Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

  Running, Country, Russia

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• Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.

  Narendra Modi

  Mother, Believe, Democracy

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• I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.

  Robert Fripp

  Morning, Views, Concern For Others

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• Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.

  Og Mandino

  Years, Library, Answers

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• Chicharito must have icicles flowing through his veins

  Andy Townsend

  Icicles

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• With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Light, Skins

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.502

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• "Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood..."

  Charles Dickens

  Father, Character, Thinking

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.131, Chapman and Hall

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• It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.

  William Wordsworth

  Angel, Blood, Differences

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