Top 100 Air To Breathe Quotes
#1. Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.
Sharon Olds
#2. People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.
Ray Bradbury
#3. We are all in Love in the same way that we are all in air. Don't forget to breathe.
David A. Beardsley
#4. Quite without thought, he glanced at his left hand, and saw the ghost of the scar at the base of his thumb, the "C" so faded that it was scarcely visible. He had not noticed it or thought of it in years, and felt suddenly as though there was not air enough to breathe.
Diana Gabaldon
#5. I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.
Jean Craighead George
#6. I let go of the past And took in a deep breath I'm ready to embrace what's next Whatever comes my way I'll find a way to cope As I breathe the fresh air of a new day My lungs fill with hope
Elaine Allen
#7. The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance.
William Tyndale
#8. You're my backbone. You're a blessing. You're a piece of my heart. You're the air I breathe. And you're the strongest person I know, and I'm so sorry for having to put you through this and having to put our family through this.
Kobe Bryant
#9. Sage: "Conner's held you down for so long, you've forgotten what it's like to breathe free air."
Imogen: "And you've given your life to his control forever. You'll never breathe free air again.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#10. You are to me an object so intensely desirable that the air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy
John Keats
#11. It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to.
Scott Kelly
#12. Finally, the water level topped off, leaving him with no more air to breathe. He drew his last breath and slipped down deep into the darkness that claimed his soul.
Wyatt Michael
#13. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines. Sleat gave a lazy
Patrick Rothfuss
#14. It doesn't have to be this way, Charlie. You're allowed to love me, despite what your father says. You're allowed to be happy. What you can't allow is for negativity to choke you until we no longer breathe the same air.
Colleen Hoover
#15. I remember that through all chaos or problems, there is a solution. So I separate myself for just a moment, whether that means zoning everyone out or taking a little walk to get some fresh air. I take this time to clear my head, breathe and reassess the problem and how I'm feeling.
Allison Holker
#16. I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.
Flannery O'Connor
#17. Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life.
Charles R. Swindoll
#18. When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air?
Patrick Modiano
#19. I would swear that I could practically hear crickets in the ensuing silence, if not for the fact that the stale air probably kills anything that requires oxygen to breathe.
T.T. Escurel
#20. Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe.
Jeremy Riddle
#21. There were other things we noticed only at first, before we accepted them as a part of daily life. Then they got harder to describe, the way it's hard to describe what it feels like to breathe air.
Elisabeth Eaves
#22. I'm not taking a chance. I feel like I can't breathe without you. I'm just doing what I need to do to survive. It's as simple as that."
"Then let me be your air," he says quietly.
M. Leighton
#23. It's hard to breathe, and I close my eyes. There's a hard lump of air in my chest, like I've swallowed a raincloud whole.
Haruki Murakami
#24. As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and to breathe forth a purer atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth peace and philanthropy.
Washington Irving
#25. The air we breathe is still free, but for how much time. I believe someone is busy patenting it to start selling it for profit
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#26. I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ... It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.
Twyla Tharp
#27. What are our lungs supposed to do?" I shouted. Shouted: "If they breathe fast they suffocate themselves from inner poisons; if they breathe slowly they suffocate from unbreathable air, from outraged things. But if they try to search for their own rhythm they perish from the mere search.
Franz Kafka
#28. We've always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that's clean.
Mary Travers
#29. The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
William Shatner
#30. Living without personal boundaries is like trying to hold my breath and gasp for air, at the same time, it doesn't work. My introverted nature requires solitary sanctuary, to breathe. My internal batteries need time to recharge if i am to give from a place of abundance.
Jaeda DeWalt
#31. In my family we've always found the world's air hard to breathe; we arrive hoping for somewhere better.
Salman Rushdie
#32. Everything struck her at times as too precious, impossible to touch. And, at times, what people used as air to breathe, was weight and death for her.
Clarice Lispector
#33. Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
Anthony Hopkins
#34. I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.
Lisa Kleypas
#35. Every living thing deserves to be respected, taken care of and loved. Religious differences are but a mere way of one's own choices. We breathe the same air, share the some food; cooking, it can be different. But fish is fish whether grilled, fried, or dropped in curry.
Sulaiman Dawood
#36. I pop a cassette into the Buick's stereo. It's the Ramones. I turn the volume up high and roll down the windows. The highway air tastes of fumes, but it still feels goddamn good to breathe
Hank Moody
#37. I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?
Lauren Greenfield
#38. We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the sound of their voices falls on the ear like the rustling of leaves or the crackling of the fire. They stand many deep.
Henry David Thoreau
#39. I didn't want to want him, but it was like choosing not to breathe. It just wasn't possible. My soul kept fighting for him like my lungs would for air.
Stormy Smith
#40. Lately I've been suffocating. Chan Young is my air, without him beside me, am I able to breathe?
Lee Bo-na
#41. Let me arise and open the gate,
to breathe the wild warm air of the heath,
And to let in Love, and to let out Hate,
And anger at living and scorn of Fate,
To let in Life, and to let out Death.
Violet Fane
#42. If you eat, breathe and grow, two things are happening - which have little to do with either air or burgers. You are receiving an education and your "spirit" is being formed. To be alive is to be formed.
Gary W. Moon
#43. The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#44. My heart yearned for Aiden like he was the very air I needed to breathe, but at the same time I understood - really understood - that, even if Aiden had loved me in return, we could never be together.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#45. Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you
can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out.
Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely
critical moment in the history of our planet.
Carl Sagan
#46. The crushing weight of silence hangs heavy as always. For a moment it's too difficult to breathe, and I wonder if this is how I die. Drowned in this bed of silk, burned by a king's obsession, smothered by open air.
Victoria Aveyard
#47. When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#48. Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himself
So our condition makes escape impossible?
we breathe
and it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle
Rodney Hall
#49. As the dry thirst for water, the starving hunger for food and lungs demand air to breathe, the one thing a soul truly craves is freedom.
Adrian G. Hilder
#50. I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.
Norman Rush
#52. The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.
James Fallows
#53. If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.
Sam Keen
#54. And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.
Jenim Dibie
#55. Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?
Joan Robinson
#56. Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana
#57. is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights - the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation - the right to breathe air as nature provided it - the right of future generations to a healthy existence?10 Kennedy
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#58. Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.
Suze Orman
#59. It is undoubtedly contagious to breathe the same air as diseased persons, and to be within the circle of attraction and expansion which surrounds the wicked.
Eliphas Levi
#60. Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?
Swami Vivekananda
#61. How can I explain to anyone that stories are like air to me, I breathe them in and let them out over and over again.
Jacqueline Woodson
#62. The air we breathe is necessary to keep us alive, but we must continually breathe it out so we can breathe fresh air back into our lungs. God gives us his love, which we can keep in action by breathing it out to others, thus making room in our hearts for a fresh supply of love.
John Templeton
#63. Any great art work ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein
#64. Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#65. The fact that someone had decided I'd be safer on Mars, where you could still only SORT OF breathe the air and SORT OF not get sunburned to death, was a sign that the war with the aliens was not going fantastically well.
Sophia McDougall
#66. Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.
Tupac Shakur
#67. Then a faintness came over her; she recalled the Viscount who had waltzed with her at Vaubyessard, and his beard exhaled like this air an odour of vanilla and citron, and mechanically she half-closed her eyes the better to breathe it in. But
Gustave Flaubert
#68. COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both. Over time, it makes it harder and harder to breathe because less air is able to flow in and out of the lungs.
Caitlyn Jenner
#69. She suddenly felt herself gasping for air, as if she'd momentarily forgotten how to breathe. She rocked back in her chair and nearly fell over, then slumped against the green-covered table. The bowl fell from her fingers, shattering at her feet, broken glass scattering everywhere.
Joe DeRouen
#70. The heat from the lava was sweltering, and the air was hot and humid. Flames rose from the ground, as if the whole place was a giant BBQ pit. It was so difficult to breathe. I gasped for air, for normal air. As I stood there and looked around, sweat dripped continuously from my brow. Then
Steve The Noob
#71. What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return
every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.
Peter Viereck
#72. Either I wake up in the Grey Zone,' he whispered, 'and I've forgotten how to breathe, and my feet are so far away I'm not sure I can afford the air fare;
Edward St. Aubyn
#73. I run because if I didn't, I'd be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run ... to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.
Dean Karnazes
#74. All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.
John F. Kennedy
#75. It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#77. If you want a thing
truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
Octavia E. Butler
#78. Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
Julia Child
#79. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary.
Dean Karnazes
#80. Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.
Cordell Hull
#81. The deep breathe you just took to show that your problems are bigger than you, is the final breathe someone had taken right now in his life! As long as your breathe is not the final one, you still have a hope!
Israelmore Ayivor
#82. She's like a breath of fresh air.
I may be the Big Bad Wolf, but even wolves need to breathe.
Courtney Cole
#83. Blood was shed that you three might breathe the good air of life, and if that means you have to miss out on a Zibzy game, then so be it. Part of being a man is putting others' needs before your own.
Andrew Peterson
#84. Hey Bil-!'
Just then my air choked off- Jacob grabbed me up in a bear hug too tight to breathe and swung me around in a circle.
'Wow, it's good to see you here!'
'Can't ... breathe,' I gasped.
He laughed and put me down.
Stephenie Meyer
#85. The split second we cease to breathe here on planet earth, we begin to breathe celestial air, and we have no reason to grieve.
Samuel J. Hodges IV
#86. I think it would have to be the way that my sister looks at you when you can't see it."
"Yeah? And how's that?" he asked, very interested in the answer.
"Oh, you know," she said coolly, "like you're the air she needs to breathe.
L.A. Kuehlke
#87. Breathe, breathe in the air,
Don't be afraid to care ...
Pink Floyd
#88. To someone who grows up by the stockyards, that smell just smells like air. You don't know what a younger person might someday think of you, and whatever stench we still breathe in without noticing.
Laura Moriarty
#89. The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#90. Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air
Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits
Will lift thee to the level of themselves.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#91. I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.
Ruth Reichl
#92. Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.
Charles R. Morris
#93. And how will you know when you've found this elusive someone?" Shahrzad retorted.
"I suspect she will be like air. Like knowing how to breathe." He regarded her with the stillness of a hawk as he said these words, and Shahrzad's throat went dry.
"Poetry," she whispered. "Not reality.
Renee Ahdieh
#94. Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."
E.B. White
#95. You are everything to me, my sun, my moon, the air I breathe. Nothing exists except you. I love you.
Rachel Higginson
#96. I want to bury my head in books like in pillows and breathe in stories like air.
Ksenia Anske
#97. The earth beneath your feet does not care you will be king. Nor the water in your cup. Nor the air you breathe. You must speak to them as equal, or even better, as supplicant.
V.E Schwab
#98. In the blink of an eye, the fairytales told to children were as real as death and taxes. Vampires, shifters, trolls, demons and creatures of myth, were as real as the air we breathe.
L.A. Kennedy
#100. The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laughs nor friends nor smiles nor money nor clean air to breathe ... and yet the music goes on.
Steve Toltz
