Full Thickness Skin

Famous quotes containing the words full, thickness and/or skin:

    “Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family—but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.”
    —Willa Cather (1876–1947)

    “For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple.
    There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple;
    And God will grow no talons at his heels,
    Nor antlers through the thickness of his curls.”
    —Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

    “I remember their smooth skin,
    those newly delivered,
    the pink skin and the serious China-blue eyes.
    They came from a mysterious country
    without the pang of birth,
    born quietly and well.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)