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Quotes About Veins

They came out. They were children. They wore rags and their skin was livid with sores. Their veins were tubes, their hair wire. Sapphique reached out and touched them. 'You are the ones who will save us,' he said.
~ Catherine Fisher
You are my father, Incarceron. I was born from your pain. Bone of steel; circuits for veins. My heart a vault of iron.
~ Catherine Fisher
Thou mastering me God! giver of breath and bread; World's strand, sway of the sea; Lord of living and dead; Thou hast bound bones and veins in me, fastened me flesh, And after it almost unmade, what with dread, Thy doing: and dost thou touch me afresh? Over again I feel thy finger and find thee.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
The vigor of glory, a glittering in the veins,      As things emerged and moved and were dissolved,      Either in distance, change or nothingness,      The visible transformations of summer night,      An argentine abstraction approaching form      And suddenly denying itself away.
~ James Gleick
If you venture to be a sageLet your virtues subside your rageFor deep wisdom you'll be veneratedLet cold veins feel blood cells generated
~ Munia Khan
Her cry of pain sent a jolt directly to his cock, and the power surged like an injection of pure heroin directly into his veins.
~ Claire Thompson
eventually, however, a distraught McCoo in wet clothes turned up at the only hotel of green-and-pink Ramsdale with the news that his house had just burned down - possibly, owing to the synchronous conflagration that had been raging all night in my veins.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
~ Langston Hughes
Branches etched a network of veins across the starry night sky. My own veins were exposed and raw from my attraction to Ella—attraction, hell. More like obsession.
~ Laura Marie Altom
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
As to the beef, it's shameful. It's not beef. Regular beef isn't veins. You can chew regular beef. Besides which, there's gravy to regular beef, and you never see a drop to ours.
~ Charles Dickens
The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.
~ Graham Joyce
He was best known, however, for his instinct. Jade had instinct like a tiger on the prowl; it seemed to come from the very blood running in his veins.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
His blood began to murmur in his veins, murmuring like a sinful city summoned from its sleep to hear its doom.
~ James Joyce
Las masas humanas más peligrosas son aquellas en cuyas venas ha sido inyectado el veneno del miedo.... del miedo al cambio
~ Octavio Paz
Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins, said Hamlet. When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is gone, their brains die, and they become ... soldiers.
~ Orson Scott Card
She patted his hand. Gnarled, ropescarred, speckled from the sun and the years of it. The ropy veins that bound them to his heart. There was map enough for men to read. There God's plenty of signs and wonders to make a landscape. To make a world.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He also noted that the veins of humans narrow with age, but the springs and rivers of the earth continually enlarge their channels.30
~ Walter Isaacson
macrocosm analogy began with his curiosity about why water, which should in theory tend to settle on the earth's surface, emerges from springs and flows into rivers at the top of mountains. The veins of the earth, he wrote, carry "the blood that keeps the mountains alive.
~ Walter Isaacson
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg.
~ John Cheever, 1982
The moment we crossed over the threshold, the moment when our veins and cells and organs went blip, I closed my eyes And illusioned. It wasn't like any illusion I'd created before. It flowed from me like a song, an orchestra of interweaving threads and melodies, painting themselves into a picture around us. [Everything] ... disappeared, and only Constantine, Queen Honoria and I stood in the nothing between two worlds.
~ Heather Dixon
The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain'd witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens.
~ Lemony Snicket
People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.
~ Art Linkletter
Little by little, and also in great leaps, life happened to me, and how insignificant this business is. These veins carried my blood, which I scarcely ever saw, I breathed the air of so many places without keeping a sample of any. In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones.
~ Pablo Neruda