Breathe

Famous quotes containing the word breathe:

“With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!””
—Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)

“My weary soul they seem to soothe,
And, redolent of joy and youth,
To breathe a second spring.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

“Manners are of more importance than laws.... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)