Tears/physiology

Famous quotes containing the words tears and/or physiology:

“So. Let me accept the role, and call
Myself the circumstances’ tennis-ball:
We’ll bounce: together
Or not, whether
Either, let no tears silent fall.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology before ... there were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)