Mouths Quotes

“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to take in as much light and love and colour and detail as they can.

The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into dazzling jungles.

What right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we don't yet understand. We are mere babes in the universe, all brothers and sisters in the nursery together. We had better learn to play nicely before we're allowed out..... And we want to go out, don't we? ..... Into the distant humming welcoming darkness.”
― Jay Woodman, SPAN

“To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Do not go to my grave.
Mary knows, I am not there.
Look for me in between pages
and on people’s lips.
Do not go to my old school.
Do not go to my old house —
I am not in any of those places.
Look for me in your hearts
and greet me there.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can't hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and get crushed to the floor. Or they get discarded, just to glow with warmth for a moment, for someone else to tread on later.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

“How unfair, he thought; I can close my mouth whenever I like, as tight as I like, and what has a mouth to say? It is there for taking in nourishment, yet it is well defended, but ears - ears are a prey to every onslaught.”
― Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé

“He would have been half-hanged, taken down alive, castrated, his genitals stuffed in his mouth, his stomach slit open, and his intestines taken out and burnt, and his carcase chopped into four quarters.”
― John Broadbent, John Milton: Introductions

“Our lips
Held the words
But our mouths
Wouldn’t utter
Them”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Vitality

“I need a stunt mouth.”
― Adam Richman

“A serca - tak ich mało, a usta - tyle ich.”
― Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński

“To serve others is not only by hands but by mouth as well.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Wengi midomo yao ndiyo inayoongea, si wao!”
― Enock Maregesi

“Usidharau midomo ya watu. Kuna watu wanaona mbele.”
― Enock Maregesi

“If you keep your mouth always shut, no one breaks your tooth.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The one who shut everyone's mouth usually doesn't keep his mouth shut.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Her eyes lowered then to his softly smiling mouth, drawn to it as though his secrets could be found there, or perhaps because it was the most forgiving aspect of his face; certainly at the moment it was easier to bear than his searching eyes. And there her gaze lingered... a little longer perhaps, than it should have. Because she was a woman, after all. And it was a splendid mouth.
She watched the smile fade from it.
Cautiously, she returned her eyes to his. What she saw there landed as cleanly as a lightning strike at the base of her spine.
The blue had darkened nearly to black. There was a thrilling tension in his face; his eyes skimmed her mouth, hovered... considering. A delicious, breath-stealing heat unfurled through her limbs.”
― Julie Anne Long, Beauty and the Spy

“Eyes ate more than mouths ever did, and the feast before her was delightful.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Steeping of Blood