Breath Quotes

No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

Folks, this is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air.

Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath.

If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.

The first time I kissed Brad my knees went weak - I literally lost my breath!

Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

You're never promised your next breath.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

I take a breath when I have to.

When men change, maybe Bond will change. But let's wait. I'm not holding my breath.

I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.