Famous quotes containing the words receive, slight and/or damage:
“God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Your anger charms me,
and yet all the time
I think of chaste, slight hands,
veined snow.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man desired that which could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)