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Quotes About Body

What I detest is the way our breasts go out sideways when we get older. They look as if they're tired of one another's company.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
A part of this strangeness of dress is that it links the biological body to the social being, and public to private.
~ Elizabeth Wilson
William, when you do gymnastics, you have to be honest about everything you do in the other parts of your life too. Otherwise, your body will deceive you and you won't be able to turn the tricks.
~ Elizabeth Winthrop
Phoebe stared into his blue eyes. "What would you do if you ran away from a wedding in a car that didn't belong to you and discovered a body in the trunk about the time a sheriff's deputy rolled up behind you?" She flung her hand in the air, and assumed a high-pitched, sarcastic tone. "Hi, I'm a rich man's daughter with a dead man in my trunk. Could you help me get him out so I can be on my merry way?
~ Elle James
Our bodies are our essential connection to life.
~ Ellen Bass
I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clapping?
~ Ellen DeGeneres
The word "yoga" literally means "uniting", because when you're doing it you are uniting your mind and your body. You can tell this almost immediately because your mind will be thinking, "Ouch, that hurts," and your body will say, "I know." And your mind will think, "You have to get out of this position." And your body will say, "I agree with you, but I can't right now. I think I'm stuck.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Enjoy your life. God gave us our bodies as a gift. (Granted, to some of us it's kind of a gag gift, but that's okay too.) Wear what you want, love who you want, and have fun.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
There's lotion for your face, lotion for your hands, lotion for your feet, lotion for your body. Why? What would happen if you put hand lotion on your feet? Would your feet get confused and start clapping?
~ Ellen DeGeneres
There's lotion for your face, lotion for your hands, lotion for your feet, lotion for your body. Why? What would happen if you put hand lotion on your feet? Would your feet get confused and start clapping?
~ Ellen DeGeneres
I guess what I'm trying to say is, there are a lot of self righteous people out there. And if you try to adjust your life to please them - by the way you dress, your sexuality, or the ass faces you like to make - you are just going to go crazy and risk being as unhappy as these self righteous kooks are. So enjoy your life. God gave us our bodies as a gift.(Granted, to some of us it's kind of a gag gift, but that's okay too.) Wear what you want, love who you want, and have fun.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
I went to the doctor to get a sonogram. I'm not pregnant, I just like to take a look once in a while; see what's going on in there.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
When you decide to go on a diet, it's never because you feel great and want to reward yourself by reducing your food intake and exercising more.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
To keep the body in a healthy condition, in order that all parts of the living machinery may act harmoniously, should be a study of our life. The children of God cannot glorify Him with sickly bodies or dwarfed minds.
~ Ellen G. White
The majority of diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic laws. They seem indifferent in regard to the matter of health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.—
~ Ellen G. White
Nothing tends more to promote health of body and of soul than does a spirit of gratitude and praise. It is a positive duty to resist melancholy, discontented thoughts and feelings—as much a duty as it is to pray.—(The Ministry of Healing, 251.) [24]
~ Ellen G. White
the question for us is not, "What will the world say?" but, "How shall I, claiming to be a Christian, treat the habitation God has given me? Shall I work for my highest temporal and spiritual good by keeping my body as a temple for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, or shall I sacrifice myself to the world's ideas and practices?"—
~ Ellen G. White
Lord! Lord! thar's such a sight of meanness in this here world that it makes a body b'lieve in Providence whether or no.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Not that I want to be thin. Heaven forbid. I do not want to take up less space in the world. I should like to take up more...
~ Ellen Hart
The extraordinary and unique quality of the disabled body, I argue, can be seen not only as resisting identification but also, and conversely, as providing a symbolic and actual basis on which to structure a system of identification that seeks to fix individual bodily identity.
~ Ellen Samuels
I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.
~ Ellie Goulding
The holding up against collapse often appears in the shoulders and upper back (Lowen, 1975). Some tensions develops there to resist the tendency to collapse. The collapse in the chest is compensated for with considerable hardness in the chest area, which is one of the structure's telltale signs. A subtle expression of low energy in the eyes and mouth is often seen. Frequently, the jaw is retracted, giving the appearance of being "weak
~ Elliot Greene
I decided that since my curves aren't going to disappear due to gorging on lettuce, I might as well flaunt them. If men like the bovine appeal, as you said, they're certainly going to get it.
~ Eloisa James
If by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live" (Romans 8:13, emphasis added). It is the Spirit who empowers you to put to death both your sinful desires and sinful deeds. You know that you can't do it on your own.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick