Breathe

Famous quotes containing the word breathe:

“Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through.
Have liberty not as the air within a grave
Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native,
In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“We’re talking scum here. Air should be illegal if they breathe it.”
—Washington, DC, Policeman. quoted by P.J. O’Rourke in Rolling Stone (New York, 30 Nov. 1989)

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