Receive

Famous quotes containing the word receive:

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

    I do not want to be covetous, but I think I speak the minds of many a wife and mother when I say I would willingly work as hard as possible all day and all night, if I might be sure of a small profit, but have worked hard for twenty-five years and have never known what it was to receive a financial compensation and to have what was really my own.
    Emma Watrous, U.S. inventor. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 8, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992)

    Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 10:15.

    Jesus.