Air Quotes - Page 6

• Argument is to me the air I breathe.

  Gertrude Stein

  Argument, Breathe

  Written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College. Published as "Form and Intelligibility" in the Radcliffe Manuscripts, 1949.

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• Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.

  Mary Jo Weaver

  Children, Home, Tasks

  Mary Jo Weaver (1993). “Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Up and down! Up and down!
  From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;
  And amidst the flashing and feathery foam
  The Stormy Petrel finds a home,--
  A home, if such a place may be,
  For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,
  On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,
  And only seeketh her rocky lair
  To warm her young and to teach them spring
  At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!

  Bryan Procter

  Spring, Home, Ice

  Barry Cornwall, “The Stormy Petrel”

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• Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
  Communicated monthly, sit and stare
  At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
  Where a young man lands hatless from the air.

  John Betjeman

  Running, Men, Land

  'Death of King George V' (1937)

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• If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Eye, Shining

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Vegetables, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Philosophical. Essays and correspondence”, p.322

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• A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Real, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.

  Robert Benchley

  Summer, Night, Trying

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.43, Glendower Media

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• Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.

  Catharine Beecher

  Children, Book, Men

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• Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

  Vanna Bonta

  Attitude, Choices, Hot

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• Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

  Frederick Buechner

  Dark, People, Suffering

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.372, Zondervan

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• There is no gravity in the Planet of Love; everything floats in the air.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Gravity, Planets

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• Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Feelings

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• Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Giving, Mountain

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• To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Needs, Breathe

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• A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Music, Should, Musician

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• Religion is a bell jar; you cannot find God in that jar, because it is your bell jar, you have created it! Break the glass prison and get fresh air, elevate your intelligence! Wake up and open your eyes; see the truth beyond your prison! If you can't break the glass, don't worry; science will do it for you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Science, Glasses

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• Working in an open air is a magic! If you are tired of the walls surrounding you, work in the fields to heal yourself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wall, Tired, Magic

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• Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos.

  Andrew Schneider

  Song, Morning, Spring

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• We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

  Tony Abbott

  Freedom, Sea, Navigation

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• The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.

  Chief Seattle

  Men, White Man, Tree

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• With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Family, Running, Men

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• Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end our reliance on Russian rocket engines, if the Air Force is unwilling to do what is necessary to meet the 2019 deadline, they are going to have to figure out how to meet our space launch needs without the RD-180 (Russian engine).

  John McCain

  Years, Space, Giving

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• Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.

  Joseph Stalin

  Army, Needs, Red

  "Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941 - 1945" by Von Hardesty, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, (p. 170), 1982.

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• Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you
  breathe.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Spiritual, Book, Reading

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