Breasts Quotes - Page 31

• The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.

  Elinor Wylie

  Moon, Wings, Imagination

  Elinor Wylie, “The Falcon”

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• Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.

  Lee Salk

  Attitude, Children, Parent

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• Everyone flatters himself and carries a kingdom in his breast.

  John Calvin

  Kingdoms, Carrie

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

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• That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

  Quintus Ennius

  Freedom, Liberty, Bears

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• I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!

  Janet Jackson

  Believe, Moving, Sight

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• A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Kings, Hatred, Conquer

  Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.245

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• It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

  Adrienne Barbeau

  Singing, Hitting, Upside Down

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

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• One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok... it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal.

  Jennifer Beals

  Cancer, Selling Products, Lovely

  "Jennifer Beals Speaks Out Against 'Pinkwashing'". www.nbcwashington.com. November 01, 2011.

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• Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?

  J. M. Coetzee

  Lying, Two, Desire

  J. M. Coetzee (2005). “Slow Man”, Viking Press

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• Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind.

  Stephen Crane

  Father, War, Yellow

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a Brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions. Yet this is the Book, which young Women are recommended to study.

  Matthew Lewis

  Book, Names, Ideas

  Matthew Lewis (2015). “The Monk”, p.223, Booklassic

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• The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Law, Independence

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.24, University of Michigan Press

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• If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.

  Roger Zelazny

  Lying, Names, Long

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• And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Lying, Rivers, Water

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1970). “Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne”

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• What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Men, Want, Appetite

  Jean Baptiste Say (1834). “A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.211

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• We lived in places that we never knew. We could not name the birds perched on our sill, Or see the trees we cut down for our view. What we possessed we always chose to kill. "We claimed the earth but did not hear her claim, And when we died, they laid us on her breast, But she refuses us until we earn Forgiveness from the lives we dispossessed.

  Dana Gioia

  Cutting, Views, Names

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.49, Macmillan

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• When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Men, Stuck, Wanted

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.890, Kodansha International

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• Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

  Henry Abbey

  Sleep, Path, Faces

  HENRY ABBEY (1872). “BALLADS OF GOOD DEEDS”, p.14

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• Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.

  Lola Ridge

  Hurt, Night, Light

  Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”

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• If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.

  Josette Sheeran

  Mother, Baby, Children

  "Filling Empty Bellies Is No Longer Enough". Department for International Development blog, dfid.blog.gov.uk. September 20, 2011.

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• The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Stones, Tests, Ready

  "Requiem". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1963.

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• Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed,
  His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared.
  His mother stood apart. No other looked
  into her secret eyes. Nobody dared.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Mother, Stones, Beloved

  "Crucifixion". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1940-1943.

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• Women often use large fake breasts like a gun, pointing the weapon at you in an attempt to garner the attention their father never gave them.

  Dov Davidoff

  Father, Gun, Fake

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• There's no such thing as a feminist - just women who pay for their own breast implants.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Feminist, Pay, Breast Implants

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