Receiving

Famous quotes containing the word receiving:

    Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them
    Printing their proud hooves i’ the receiving earth;
    For ‘tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)