Vigorous

Famous quotes containing the word vigorous:

    “... one of art photography’s most vigorous enterprises—[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate—but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “...the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 1:19.

    Egyptian midwives to Pharaoh.

    “In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)