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)

“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)

“When first the college rolls receive his name,
The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame;
Through all his veins the fever of renown
Burns from the strong contagion of the gown;”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)