Breathe Quotes - Page 14

• The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.

  Carter Heyward

  Space, Earth, Sacred

  Carter Heyward (1989). “Speaking of Christ: A Lesbian Feminist Voice”

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• People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Writing, Space, People

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• Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Memories, Blessed, Blessing

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• Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

  Tom Bergeron

  Noses, Forget, Failing

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• There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Doctors, People, Needs

  Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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• The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday.

  Sonia Johnson

  Religious, Air, Land

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• Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Dream, Art, Husband

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• A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Children, Book

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• Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most lovable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown feathers in the twilight copse.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Book, Twilight, Sunshine

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.99

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• Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Soul, Useless, Erode

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• Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

  Unita Blackwell

  Air, Years, Voting

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• What the men like best are what there's the least sense in, dresses you can't sit down in, that won't stand a lot of action, that hobble you and truss you up and slow you down and fix it so you can't hardly breathe, till finally you're off in one corner, like a bird in a cage, not cluttering up the busy paths in life that men has got to use. That's the styles they really like!

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Men, Clothes, Bird

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• This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Motor Vehicles, Rivers

  Special Message to the Congress on Conservation and Restoration of Natural Beauty, February 8, 1965.

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• All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

  Moliere

  People, Drug, Able

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• As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. Its a huge deal.

  Katherine Webb

  Football, Sleep, People

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• One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

  Ray Nagin

  Weekend, Night, New Orleans

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• ...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular reforms and quell the mutinies. Corporate Globalization-or shall we call it by its name?-Imperialism-needs a press that pretends to be free. It needs courts that pretend to dispense justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Dream, Fighting

  California River Watch 2011 Annual Statement, criverwatch.org. 2011.

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• There are people who live, breathe and dress tennis.

  Serena Williams

  People, Tennis, Dresses

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.

  Thomas Merton

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Atmosphere

  Thomas Merton (1988). “Encounter: Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki”

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• That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

  Iris Murdoch

  Wish, Awful, Christ

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.151, Penguin

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• If you dont live, eat, breathe, football, then youre not a true football player. You just wear the jersey.

  Sergio Ramos

  Football, Player, Jersey

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• When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

  Frances Mayes

  Reading, Names, Twelve

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• I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became clear.

  Common

  Blessed, Cutting, Thinking

  "Humanimal". Book by Vergil Z. Ozeca, 2010.

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• How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world and took deep gulps of fresh sea air. It was late in the day: the wet mouth of the afternoon was full on my face. My soul blossomed in that brief moment as they led me out of doors. I fell, my skirts in the mud, and I turned my face upwards as if in prayer. I could have wept from the relief of light.

  Hannah Kent

  Prayer, Light, Air

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• If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you - I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Giving Up, Memories

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.505

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