Breath

Famous quotes containing the word breath:

    “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Genesis 2:7.

    “It is the human season on this sterile air
    Do words outcarry breath the sound goes on and on.
    I hear a dead man’s cry from autumn long since gone.

    I cry to you beyond upon his bitter air.”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    “Not a breath of wild air;
    Still as the mosses that glow
    On the flooring and over the lines”
    —George Meredith (1828–1909)