(442 quotes found)
“Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. But you haven't learned how to read the wisdom of the body”
Dan Millman
“Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity”
Father James Keller
“[Its] language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting.”
Clifford Longley
“There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The tiny madman in his padded cell.”
Vladimir Nabokov
“I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.”
Antonio Gramsci
“It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.”
Lewis Thomas
“No chains can bind it, and no cell enclose:Swifter than light, it flies from pole to pole,And, in a flash, from earth to heaven it goes!”
William Lloyd Garrison
“The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.”
Conan O'Brien
