Breathe Quotes - Page 13

• Think of God oftener than you breathe.

  Epictetus

  God, Thinking

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• ... I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar atmosphere, speak its own little patois, and see but one side of the question on which it fights.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Party, Fighting, Atmosphere

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.99, Vanderbilt University Press

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• Everything on our tormented earth that is alive and breathes, that blossoms and bears fruit, lives only by virtue of and in the name of Truth and Good.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Names, Alive, Earth

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• Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

  Homer

  Father, Believe, Moving

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• on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

  Marya Mannes

  Dream, Real, Moving

  Marya Mannes (1961). “The New York I Know”

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• We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Oxygen, Giving

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• Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts
  The world were poor in thanks, though every soul
  Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade
  Of grass, and every atomie of earth
  To utter it like dew.

  Philip James Bailey

  God, Dear Lord, Soul

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.406

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• The wind breathes not, and the wave
  Walks softly as above a grave.

  Philip James Bailey

  Wind, Wave, Graves

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.143

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• Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, Men, Views

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Men and Wives”, p.2, A&C Black

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• Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Food, Steam, Consolation

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• Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Happiness, Long, Return

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.204, Broadview Press

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• Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine!
  Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!
  Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,
  Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course;
  And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain
  Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain;
  Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come,
  And breathe around her melancholy gloom:
  To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine,
  And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine.

  George Crabbe

  Art, Pain, Light

  George Crabbe (1812). “Tales”, p.191

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• If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Food, Blessing, Cooking

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• It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there but they don't have a chance because once upon a time we [musicians of the 60s] had record companies, and they would support you and have point of purchase material and they would give you advances. In other words, they gave you the air to breathe to find yourself and spend the time to learn how to run.

  Gene Simmons

  Running, Artist, Support You

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.

  Celia Thaxter

  Beautiful, Flower, Moving

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “Letters of Celia Thaxter”

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• I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

  Miles Franklin

  Men, Breathing, Silence

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.27, ETT Imprint

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• I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Thinking, Air

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• Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

  Louise Erdrich

  Time, Destiny, Two

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• Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a particle of good in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the instrument of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished--their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal? Live for something.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Moving, Men, Light

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• Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

  Harriet Martineau

  Moving, Men, Atmosphere

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158

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• In the home we make certain distinctions about functions of rooms and corridors; we do not deliver the groceries straight into the baby's crib. In hospitals we do not take the food trolleys right through the operating chamber, and we rarely have the recreation room next to the convalescent room. We sort out the functions. We have to sort out the functions of the city and the streams of traffic and re-create arterial systems that allow us to breathe ... the shape, pattern and sense of community which you expect if it were a home.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Baby, Home, Cities

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• And wheresoever, in his rich creation,
  Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul--
  'Tis but the faint and far reverberation
  Of that great tune to which the planets roll!

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Music, Sweet, Bird

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• Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.

  Lucy Stone

  Men, Hair, Long

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• Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

  Anna Magnani

  Moon, Hands, Jewels

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• There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

  Rose Pastor Stokes

  Sympathy, Compassion, Air

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