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For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love. -- Juvenal
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning. -- Black Elk
How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love. -- James Beattie
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. -- Nelly Sachs
The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us. -- John Deacon
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -- Bessie Anderson Stanley
In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life. -- Matt Taibbi
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu. -- Jerry Saltz
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. -- William C. Bryant
All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time. -- Charles Hazlewood
I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before. -- Alice Walker
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed. -- Paul Engle
Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it. -- Q-Tip
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. -- Stephen King
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies extruded from a metal press and pastel bonbons ordered from See's. -- Joan Didion
My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off. -- Jez Butterworth
I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood. -- Patrick White
I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. -- Sting
I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I'm not here to preach hate or push people down. -- Joel Osteen
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear. -- Robert Fitzgerald
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church. -- Garry Wills
I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed. -- M. F. K. Fisher
Racing takes so much determination, guts, and sacrifice to be on top. I once craved, lived, and breathed racing. I can honestly say now, I'm ready to slow down and enjoy my life. Maybe I'll cut loose and have a cheeseburger or some pizza. Those types of indulgencies are not allowed when you constantly have to monitor your weight. -- Chantal Sutherland
Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed. -- Naomie Harris
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. -- Abraham Lincoln
Christmas; silence breathed childlike anticipation in your heart. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land. -- Washington Irving
The very air they breathed was almost a juice. -- Rebecca Wells
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The men of old breathed clear down to their heels. -- Zhuangzi
The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day. -- John Keble
All Scripture is God-breathed and He doesn't waste His breath. -- Jim McCotter
Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us... -- C. S. Lewis
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. -- William Wordsworth
Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth. -- Joseph Campbell
Faces close, they breathed into each other, their bodies slick with water and sweat. -- Melissa Cutler
No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. -- John Milton
Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity. -- Arundhati Roy
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
At last." He breathed into her, finding her lips. "You found me," she whispered. "Always. -- Lauren Kate
Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air. -- Ruth Gordon
I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. -- Annie Dillard
I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it. -- Paul Harding
Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her. -- Louie Giglio
Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time. -- Leslie Marmon Silko
I'm sorry," he breathed. "You're just extremely irresistible." "Strange, men have been resisting me for years. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Success is knowing that one other human being has breathed a little easier because you lived. -- Dennis Kimbro
For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world. -- Mary Hunter Austin
the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky -- John Geddes
Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear. -- George Eliot
If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger. -- Lauren Myracle
The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky... -- John J. Geddes
What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me? -- William Shakespeare
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -- Bessie Anderson Stanley
When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians. -- Noel Pearson
If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name. -- Peter Greenaway
All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered. -- Cassandra Clare
I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.. -- Bill Ayers
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago? -- Alan Lightman
An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears. -- William Stafford
Light-leaved acacias, by the door, Stood up in balmy air, Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore, And breathed a perfume rare. -- George MacDonald
She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed. -- O. Henry
Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it. -- Jim Steranko
Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ. -- G. C. Berkouwer
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new. -- Rabindranath Tagore
If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover. -- Dave Barry
Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman. -- James Russell Lowell
An aroma more heavenly than a flight of angels trickled on the breeze. "Coffee!" He breathed the word like a prayer. -- Karen Kincy
I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent. -- Veronica Roth
Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water. -- Piers Anthony
I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed. -- Eden Robinson
He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed. -- Lech Walesa
She breathed. "This is lovely." It was for Adam, not Gansey, but she saw Gansey glance over his shoulder at her. -- Maggie Stiefvater
As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now. -- Colin Meloy
Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose. -- James Aldrich
Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent. -- Nick Flynn
To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again. -- Ilchi Lee
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord. -- Thomas Brooks
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind. -- James Russell Lowell
I breathed him in, closing my mouth tight and inhaling the scent of him through my nose. I felt sheltered by him. Safe." -- Tammara Webber
I breathed him in, closing my mouth tight and inhaling the scent of him through my nose. I felt sheltered by him. Safe. -- Tammara Webber
Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater. -- Robin Hobb
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You should go," I breathed. "You should definitely go." "Go here?" His mouth was on my shoulder. "Or here?" It moved up my neck. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass. -- William Shakespeare
Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God! -- Thomas Carlyle
Sweet mother of chaos," he breathed. "Rachel, you are indeed one of us. Have your time in the sun. You're worth the extra wait. -- Kim Harrison
I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane. -- Beyonce Knowles
You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
They have demons on Antarctica?" "Yeah," Ash breathed. "It wasn't always covered by ice, that was just a precaution when they buried them. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear. -- Sebastian Faulks
... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed. -- Charles Darwin
My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real. -- Megan Follows
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor. -- William Shakespeare
His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The latter went dreaming. -- Clive Barker
She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie) -- Margaret Mitchell
I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened. -- J.R. Ward
My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone. -- Frank Sinatra
I'm not dangerous," I breathed. He brought his face toward mine. "You are to me." And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing. -- Richelle Mead
They'll kill you for doing this," I breathed in a brief moment when his lips traveled to my neck. "If I don't I'll die anyways. -- Kiera Cass
... feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun... -- John Keats
It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory. -- H. L. Balcomb
The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs. -- Christopher Columbus
If ever there breathed a human soul who took personally the experience of Jesus reading from the Prophet Esaias, it was the Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds. -- Reverend Sam R. Estes
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively. -- Martin Luther
In death, they all looked the same. This morning they spoke, they breathed, they kissed their loved ones good-bye. And now they lay dead. Gone forever. -- Ilona Andrews
Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective"?even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth. -- Jeff Vandermeer
The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air. -- George D. Prentice
My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world. -- D. Antoinette Foy
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life? -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Openly I whispered and breathed a big gulp of air and saw all the beautiful trees and birds which surrounded me. The morning was beautiful like your smile. -- Milton Hook
You know I love you right?" "I know," he breathed, his arm tightening automatically around my waist. "You know how much I wish it was enough. -- Stephenie Meyer
There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune. -- Arthur Eddington
Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming tail, an imperfect skull & undoubtedly was an hermaphrodite! Here is a pleasant genealogy for mankind. -- Charles Darwin

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