Our Skin Quotes
57 quotes by 52 authors
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand…
— Erma Bombeck
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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects…
— Andrzej Stasiuk
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Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to…
— Clarence Thomas
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When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the…
— Clarence Thomas
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It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel…
— Ruth Bernhard
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The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.
— Socrates
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I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a…
— Olafur Eliasson
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You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being…
— Mireille Guiliano
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I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love.
— Nia Vardalos
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If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children…
— Nhat Hanh
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Wonder in everything No matter how great or small... Same thing that's scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin... There's a time to…
— David Gray
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We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong... So what we humans birth might…
— Odysseas Elytis
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When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that: we grow…
— Jack Handey
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We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.
— Jay Griffiths
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It helps to think of soil as a living organism covered with skin like a human. We can live with a certain percentage of our…
— Allan Savory
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I said, "If I was a Negro girl-" He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. "We can't think of changing…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
— Billy Gibbons
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We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
— Andrea Gibson
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I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing…
— Li-Young Lee
Who Wrote These Our Skin Quotes
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