Body Quotes

My body’s strong, my body’s capable. Why am I going to talk down to it? Why am I going to be mean to it when it’s, like, carried me this far?

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

No leg’s too short to reach the ground.

This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.

One way to keep your feet on the ground is to put a heavy responsibility on your shoulders.

This is my house – it is not I:

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified. (Romeo and Juliet)

Have both feet on the ground.

The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.

I will give out divers schedules of my beauty. It shall be inventoried; and every particle and utensil labelled to my will: as, item, two lips, indifferent, red; item, two gray eyes with lids to them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. (Twelfth Night)