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Quotes About Veins

Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated, wrapped around itself in ways that aren't always obvious.
~ Dr. John
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons
~ Saul Williams
The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.
~ Jimmy Carter
Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins
~ Kurt Vonnegut
He could almost taste the tang of that swampy air right here in his own desert parking lot and hear the calls of the heavily beating flock, sorrowing and apologizing and making plans for some other time. Time. He realized that crows had always reminded him of time, dark time. He gazed at the backs of his hands, at the plummy dark repellent veins.
~ Joy Williams
you seemed far too familiar with violence. It was too easy for you. The way you drew your gun ... You'd had far too much experience with it." He leaned forward, his eyes burning into hers. "What I felt in that moment was far from familiar. It was rage, Elizabeth, pure and primitive, and quite unlike anything that's ever before coursed through my veins.
~ Julia Quinn
She was benediction, a touch of faith, life itself coursing through my veins collapsed in age and turmoil, and to my fatigued and weary heart, a new and vibrant throb.
~ F. Sionil Jose
But there is no oblivion, no dream: raw flesh. Kisses tie mouths in a tangle of new veins and those who are hurt will hurt without rest…" from "Sleepless City (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne)
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Me duele hasta la punta de las venas.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
The least of the virtues adds to the perfection of the character. It is with the finest characters as it is with the finest woods and marbles--the polishing hand is still needed to bring out the veins of beauty and of grace.
~ bovee christian nestell iv
The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.
~ Haruki Murakami
His thoughts swirled like a beck in spate behind the sodden grey furrows of his face. A woman … Blast! Blast! Come to wrest away from him the land whose love fermented in his veins like slow yeast.
~ Stella Gibbons
I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.
~ Sylvester Stallone
A heavy naughtiness pricked through my veins, irritating and attractive as the hurt of a loose tooth.
~ Sylvia Plath
I see with sympathy The swollen veins on his brow, showing How exhausting it is to be evil.
~ brecht bertolt ii
Wherever a breeze stirs there are breasts as cool as jelly, white pigeons come to flutter and rut in the ice-blue veins of the Himalayas.
~ Henry Miller
While I'm a New Yorker at heart, and 'Harlem Honey' runs through my veins, Atlanta - its awesome residents and glorious landscapes - has a special place in the hearts of my family and I.
~ Kim Fields
Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.
~ Tom Shadyac
We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship.
~ Bram Stoker
Dusk I feel my heart melting in the mildness like candles: my veins are slow oil and not wine, and I feel my life fleeing hushed and gentle like the gazelle.
~ Gabriela Mistral
When I go to the beach, my grandchildren try to make words out of the veins in my legs. That's why I still take the pill; I don't want any more grandchildren.
~ Phyllis Diller
Tearing the sword loose burst the ribcage, and Samar stared to see the victim's heart, still beating, pitch free of its broken nest, dangling for a moment from torn arteries and veins, before the warrior fell from sight.
~ Steven Erikson
Khaster could feel the blood beating in every inch of his veins. He could see its red building behind his eyes.
~ Storm Constantine