Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We need to care for all children as if they were hijos propios; children of our own flesh and blood. — Patrick Atkinson Copy Share Image
In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Her body was spattered with tiny bits of the reverend’s flesh and blood, like someone had combined shrimp and tomato soup and… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Just like skin is needed to protect the flesh and blood¦ a lie was needed to protect the truth.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She may be your own sister, honey, your own flesh and blood, but you’ve got to face it, deep down inside she… — Henry Farrell Copy Share Image
Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized,… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to stop making those gaffes, even if I could. People realise I am flesh and blood. I am not… — Murray Walker Copy Share Image
“Their religion was devotion to the human soul. Their sustenance was its flesh and blood. Their limitless love reached out, to what… — Chad Schimke Copy Share Image
Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built.… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“I don't know to this day if I screamed out loud, but deep down in my soul, in the place inside of… — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
“She’d so believed he could—that decades marked by disdain for emotion could have been nothing more than a faint memory in his… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“I was studying the football in my hands, running my fingers over the pigskin, across the letters of the brand name printed… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“The most excruciating thing, though, had been maintaining a normal life knowing his partner’s secret—the effort it required to keep her in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenon—parents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms… — Douglas Wynne Copy Share Image
“The broad white road unrolled before the long procession, the sun and sky surveyed it cloudless, the wind tossed the tree boughs… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“PRAYER OF COMMUNION We who are about to partake of each other, shall walk past all amorous sickness and deaths, for we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With the birth of Akash, in his sudden, perfect presence, Ruma had felt awe for the first time in her life. He… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“What the hell is all this I read in the papers?" "Narrow it down for me," Alan suggested. "I suppose it might… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“On Work and Charity Likewise (Maria) watched (Martin's) toils and knew the measure of the midnight oil he burned. Work! She knew… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“But as the engrafted wild olive does not certainly lose the substance of its wood, but changes the quality of its fruit,… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“The Armor of God 10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God,… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
“ART The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. — Lee Strasberg Copy Share Image
“If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.” — Arthur Plotnick Copy Share Image
