Breasts Quotes - Page 17

• When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Sweet, Vanity

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.507

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• We cannot tell by looking at the diamond that it is a commodity. When it serves as a use-value, asthetic or mechanical, on the breast of a harlot, or in the hand of a glasscutter, it is a diamond and not a commodity.

  Karl Marx

  Hands, Use, Commodity

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• I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  1819 'The Cloud'.

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• Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

  John Keats

  Eye, Ease, Dry

  'Shed no tear - O shed no tear' (written 1819)

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• The day I found out, the day I got my mammogram and the doctor told me I had breast cancer, it was mid-November.

  Victoria Gotti

  Cancer, Doctors, Mammograms

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• Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Wings, World, Ghost

  'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

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• Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven brothers--they were all princes--used to go to school with stars on their breasts and swords at their sides. They wrote upon golden slates with diamond pencils, and could read just as well without a book as with one, so there was no mistake about their being princes. Their sister Elise sat upon a little footstool of looking-glass, and she has a picture-book which had cost the half of a kingdom. Oh, these children were very happy; but it was not to last thus forever.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Daughter, Brother, Stars

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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• I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Strong, Secret Places, Sea

  The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

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• I'm like a cartoon! I'll look this way when I'm eighty. I can see it now, people will be rolling me around in a wheelchair and I'll still have my big hair, nails, my high heels and my boobs stuck out!

  Dolly Parton

  Hair, High Heels, People

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

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• People always ask me if they're mine. Yes, they are... all bought and paid for.

  Dolly Parton

  People, Ask Me, Mines

  "5 style lessons we can learn from Dolly Parton" by Rina Raphael, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.

  Francis Quarles

  Strong, Men, Giving

  Francis Quarles (1861). “Quarles' emblems, illustr. by C. Bennett and W.H. Rogers”, p.28

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• A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Home, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.414, Delphi Classics

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• Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast, He dieth not, unless the appointed time, The limit of his life's span, coincide; Nor does the man who by the hearth at home Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.

  Aeschylus

  Home, Heart, Fate

  Aeschylus (1868). “The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses”, p.235

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• My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.

  Molly Ivins

  Cutting, Awful, Emotion

  "Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?". content.time.com. February 18, 2002.

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• Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.

  Molly Ivins

  Fun, Cancer, Firsts

  "Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?". content.time.com. February 18, 2002.

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• The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

  Karl Marx

  Passion, Mean, Violent

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.455, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Sweet, Moving, Four Elements

  'Tamburlaine the Great' (1590) pt. 1, act 2, sc. 7

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• On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

  Matthew Arnold

  History, Foam, Bells

  Matthew Arnold (1962). “Lectures and Essays in Criticism”, p.529, University of Michigan Press

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• My breasts have a career. I'm just tagging along.

  Pamela Anderson

  Careers

  "Pamela Anderson: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.

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• [My breasts] had a pretty good career. I’ve basically been tagging along for the ride.

  Pamela Anderson

  Careers, Brilliant, Tagged

  Interview with Lina Das, www.mailonsunday.co.uk. September 20, 2008.

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• I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Childhood, Analysis

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• It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Sticks, Necks, Easier

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.18, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I get all these screenplays that start 'Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts'. I don't think this is happening to Natalie Portman.

  Jessica Alba

  Thinking, Water, Hollywood

  "Fantasy figure" by Allison Glock, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"

  Linda Ellerbee

  Dog, Yelling, Play

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• Here's the thing - the accent is cool. It's like a girl with big breasts - they get your attention first.

  Kevin Costner

  Girl, Attention, Firsts

  "Quint kinda visits the set of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit!". Interview with Eric Vespe, www.aintitcool.com. January 7, 2014.

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