Veins

Famous quotes containing the word veins:

“I believe there were no flowers then,
In the world where the humming-bird flashed ahead of creation.
I believe he pierced the slow vegetable veins with his long beak.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“There is gold, and here
My bluest veins to kiss—a hand that kings
Have lipped, and trembled kissing.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother’s life?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)