Body Quotes

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

On a scale of one to 10, I'd rate my body confidence as a good seven. Everyone has their hang-ups, but I see my body as a training tool and I feel good about it.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

Get to like your own body.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

My body gets weak without truth.

You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.