Receive

Famous quotes containing the word receive:

“The town’s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I had lived over twenty years without the legal right to be alone one hour M to have the exclusive use of one foot of space M to receive an unopened letter, or to preserve a line of manuscript “from sharp and sly inspection.””
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

“But what have I, but what have I, my friend,
To give you, what can you receive from me?
Only the friendship and the sympathy
Of one about to reach her journey’s end.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)