Body Quotes

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

~ Alexander Pope

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

~ David Bailey

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

~ Steven Wright

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

~ Warren Buffett

Ever since I've given up dancing, every physiotherapist or Pilates teacher has said you have to keep moving. If I don't, I'll have a hundred times more injuries because you get weak areas on your body.

~ Darcey Bussell

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

~ Sid Waddell

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

~ Ovid

I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.

~ Jorge Cruise

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

~ Agnes Smedley

You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it's the same thing. You can train your psychological strength.

~ Wladimir Klitschko

I've just always felt it's an incredibly empowering thing, particularly for young women, to capitalize on their coordination and their strength. It's a very empowering thing to feel strong in your body.

~ Alanis Morissette

The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.

~ Evangeline Lilly

If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

~ Canelo Alvarez

To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and more sophisticated than anything on a Lexus. The jaw knows its own strength. The faster and more recklessly you close your mouth, the less force the muscles are willing to apply.

~ Mary Roach

Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

~ Rachel Platten

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

~ Ramana Maharshi

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

~ Glenn Hoddle

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

~ Saskia De Brauw

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

~ Keith Jarrett

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

~ Klaus Schulze

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

~ William Blake

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

~ Alexander Hamilton

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

~ Elizabeth Berkley

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

~ Jerry Stiller

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.

~ Kenneth H. Cooper

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

~ Bette Midler

Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

~ G. Stanley Hall

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.

~ Sophia Bush

Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.

~ Valentina Zelyaeva

When I have supped too heavily of an evening, I drink in the morning a large number of cups of coffee, and that as hot as I can drink it, so that the sweat breaks out on me, and if by so doing I can't restore my body, a whole apothecary's shop couldn't do much, and that is the only thing I have done for years when I have felt a fever.

~ Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

~ John Glenn

This may sound surprising for someone who works in Hollywood, but I do not count calories, and I don't even care about weight gain, which I know sounds really bizarre. I listen to my body. I don't just wake up in the morning and cook whatever I eat.

~ Nikki Reed

Your body knows how old you are, but if you keep on and you take care of yourself - you know, I go to kickboxing class every morning at 5 A.M. You know, try to do all the things to take care of the outside of your body, but you also should do - and have to do things that take care of the inside of your body.

~ Darlene Love

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

~ Emmitt Smith

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

~ Erin Gray

There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.

~ Joel Kinnaman

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

~ Andrea Dworkin

The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.

~ Charles Hodge