Breath

Famous quotes containing the word breath:

“The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“... it were impossible for a people to be more completely identified with their government than are the Americans. In considering it, they seem to feel, “It is ours, we have created it, and we support it; it exists for our protection and service; it lives as the breath of our mouths; and, while it answers the ends for which we decreed it, so long shall it stand, and nought shall prevail against it.””
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)

“The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)