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Quotes About Chests

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.
~ PZ Myers
What is the body? Endurance. What is love? Gratitude. What is hidden in our chests? Laughter. What else? Compassion).
~ Amy Bloom
girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.
~ Eugenides Jeffrey
One of the standard examples of American humor is the picture of the Mayflower loaded to the cross-trees with the chairs, chests and cradles that devout New Englanders now own and claim were brought over on that memorable voyage.
~ George Francis Dow
Donnie Green himself had been a trader at Salomon Brothers in the dark ages, when traders had more hair on their chests than on their heads.
~ Michael Lewis
Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of trunks, of course, is that everything has to be lifted at to get things at the bottom. It took a remarkably long time- till the 1600s- before it occurred to anyone to put drawers in and thus convert trunks into chests of drawers.
~ Bill Bryson
Ah, what was that? Jealousy? Men. Take away the jeans and designer labels and you had cavemen beating their chests.
~ Unknown
Remove the books from the cellar! Leave nothing in the Temple! Put the chests in the esplanade and we'll meet at the door of the Al-Asqa at nightfall!
~ Unknown
The men's gazes are heavy on us. Heavy and pointed, three dull sabers to our chests. They would be high-fiving if it were them. Crowing and banging tabletops. We don't move or even smile.
~ Megan Abbott