#bodies

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bodies #change #climate #customs #empty

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#begin #bodies #body #care #cross

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#area #bodies #bones #carries #complete

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#bodies #men #more #see #than

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies. ↗

— Diogenes

#friend #soul #two

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#art #athens #city #conquest #dwells

Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We aren't afraid to show that off a little bit more. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#bit #bodies #comfortable #latin #latin women

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#bodies #celebrate #did #poets #specifically

For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies. ↗

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

#bodies #cost #dead #fight #finish

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority. ↗

— Theodore White

#away #being #bodies #break #cease