High Blood Pressure

Famous quotes containing the words high, blood and/or pressure:

    “While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
    Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
    And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
    Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Those times I mussed his curly black hair
    and touched his ten tar-fingers
    and swallowed down his whiskey breath.
    Red. Red. Father, you are blood red.
    Father,
    we are two birds on fire.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The area [of toilet training] is one where a child really does possess the power to defy. Strong pressure leads to a powerful struggle. The issue then is not toilet training but who holds the reins—mother or child? And the child has most of the ammunition!”
    —Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)