Body Maintain Contact

Famous quotes containing the words body, maintain and/or contact:

    “What matter though numb nightmare ride on top
    And blood and mire the sensitive body stain?
    What matter? Heave no sigh, let no tear drop,
    A greater, a more gracious time has gone....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “He should be as vigorous as a sugar maple, with sap enough to maintain his own verdure,... and not like a vine, which being cut in the spring bears no fruit, but bleeds to death in the endeavor to heal its wounds.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.”
    —Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)