Embrace

Famous quotes containing the word embrace:

    “I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “This is a pain I mostly hide,
    but ties of blood, or seed endure,
    and even now I feel inside
    the hunger for his outstretched hand,
    a man’s embrace to take me in,
    the need for just a word of praise.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)