Heart

Heart

The heart is a hollow muscle that pumps blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. It is found in all animals with a circulatory system (including all vertebrates).

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Famous quotes containing the word heart:

    “Christ is my onely head,
    My alone onely heart and breast,
    My onely musick, striking me ev’n dead;”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “The heart can think of no devotion
    Greater than being shore to the ocean....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession. It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the LORD set his heart on you and chose you -for you were the fewest of all peoples.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 7:6,7.