Receive

Famous quotes containing the word receive:

    His word
    is withdrawn,
    hieratic,
    authentic,
    a king’s,
    yet all may receive it.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it.
    Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)