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Quotes About Cheek

Tears fall from his eyes and arrange themselves on his cheek like Man Ray tears.
~ Deborah Levy
A wounded deer leaps highest, A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs: A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings! Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim
~ Emily Dickinson
No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
~ Erasmus Darwin
She felt the breath of history on her cheek.
~ Andreas Eschbach
I had a column for the 'Seattle Weekly' for five years, and there was one column that was called 'How To Be A Man,' and it was kind of tongue in cheek; it was really tongue in cheek. And I got a book deal from that column.
~ Duff McKagan
He crashed a dozen Cadillacs in one year and played the Apollo. With racial hatred burning in the headlines, the audience danced in the seats to a white boy from the bottomland, backed by pickers who talked like Ernest Tubb. "James Brown kissed me on my cheek," he says. "Top that.
~ Rick Bragg
Emily, thus dashed to earth, moved back to her seat in a daze. Her smitten cheek was crimson, but the wound was in her heart. One moment ago in the seventh heaven--and now this--pain, humiliation, misunderstanding!
~ L.M. Montgomery
The dove sits on the window frame. And Vera, our mother, just lies there like that, her cheek against the floor, her dress in her mouth and her hand full of blood, as a beam of sunlight slowly passes over her.
~ Lars Saabye Christensen
We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry
~ Edward Young
The hand touched my cheek again. It wasn't soft and cool like Gina's. It was warm, with calloused fingertips like those of…. ….a guitar player.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
He shows the most amazing brass neck," she said.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
There was another tear streaming down his windblown cheek and as he replied she lifted the handkerchief in her hand and wiped it away, feeling the not unpleasant pull of his beard against the thin cotton.
~ Alice McDermott
Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
~ Anonymous
We were like two actors in a play, reciting lines that had been written by someone else. He gave me a peck on the cheek and then — exit stage right — I went upstairs on my own.
~ Anthony Horowitz
A voice hissed: He sheds tears! It was taken around the ring Usal gives moisture to the dead! He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.
~ Frank Herbert
When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.
~ David Furnish
The Winter's cheek flushed as if he had drained Spring, Summer, and Autumn at a draught...
~ Edward Thomas
The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights)
~ Elaine Kagan
The world blesses not the meek, but the vindictive; it praises not the one who turns the other cheek, but the one who renders evil for evil; it exalts not the humble, but the aggressive. Ideological forces have carried that spirit of violence, class-struggle, and the clenched fist to an extreme the like of which the world before has never seen.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Sugar's cheek was smooth and taut beneath the veil. It felt like one of these netted onions in a grocery store.
~ Anne Tyler
My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
~ Brett Hull
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
~ George Edward Moore
Love resistless in fight, all yield at a glance of thine eye, Love who pillowed all night on a maiden's cheek dost lie, Over the upland holds. Shall mortals not yield to thee?
~ Sophocles
Those who felt this sensation of awe, could not explain whence it arose: some attributed it to the dead grey eye, which, fixing upon the object's face, did not seem to penetrate, and at one glance to pierce through to the inward workings of the heart; but fell upon the cheek with a leaden ray that weighed upon the skin it could not pass.
~ John William Polidori