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Quotes About Loins

The chimneys, rank on rank, cut the clear sky; the moon, with a rag of gauze about her loins, poses among them, an awkward Venus.
~ Richard Aldington
It was as though a deed of conveyance of her narrow loins had been drawn and sealed. I was making my first entry as the freeholder of a property I would enjoy and develop at leisure.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?Gird up now thy loins like a man.
~ Anonymous
Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.
~ David Gemmell
Oh, what a miserable man you are! If you're wrong and he tries to bite me, I will be very upset with you, Mok. I will lay waste to your loins. I will make your eyes crossed so that everyone who looks at you and your silly mask will not be able to help but laugh. And I will think of other things, too, I assure you.
~ Steven Erikson
The heart is an organ that pumps blood, not sonnets. With a bit of luck some of that circulation reaches the brain, but on the whole it ends up in the gut and, in your case, in the loins—which, if you're not careful, will take over your brain.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
His suave loins of darkness, dark-clad and suave
~ D.H. Lawrence
Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shacking up with a German assassin. She felt tears again in her eyes, boiling. For all I have committed. Wrecked. 'Let's go,' she said, rising to her feet. 'The hairdresser.
~ Philip K. Dick
There was already something dead about him. He didn't rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked. That stillness at the back of his neck. His prosperous-looking belly…sagged like a load suspended from his loins.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us? And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
~ Bible
Blood!" Froi said, horrified. "Loins? Same loins you stick--" "Froi!" Trevanion snapped. "Flowing at times like a gutted pig," Evanjalin said. "Evanjalin!
~ Melina Marchetta
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he is to remove with the kidneys.
~ Leviticus 3:15
both kidneys with the fat on them near the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which is to be removed with the kidneys.
~ Leviticus 7:4
See the strength of his loins and the power in the muscles of his belly.
~ Job 40:16