Famous quotes containing the word receive:
“Even a poor man can receive honors.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“I’ve thought about how, were we to suddenly receive the freedom about which we talk so much when we spar with one another, we would not know what to do with it at first. We would expend it on denouncing one another in the newspapers for spying, for love of the ruble, we would frighten society with protestations that we have no people, no science, no literature, nothing at all!”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“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.