Receive

Famous quotes containing the word receive:

    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.

    The mastery of one’s phonemes may be compared to the violinist’s mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor’s renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.
    W.V. Quine (b. 1908)

    But what have I, but what have I, my friend,
    To give you, what can you receive from me?
    Only the friendship and the sympathy
    Of one about to reach her journey’s end.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)