Quotes about Thin
After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
- Genesis 41:19
Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
- Genesis 41:20
the priest shall examine the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a scaly outbreak, an infectious disease of the head or chin.
- Leviticus 13:30
I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.
- Jay Parini
I related my impressions of La Paz, its purple mountains, its hermetic Indians, and its air, so thin that your lungs are always on the verge of filling with foam and your mind with hallucinations.
- Isabel Allende
Boredom is rage spread thin.
- Paul Tillich
The thin tunes, holding lost times and future hopes in liaison, twisted upon the Valais night.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?
- Abraham Lincoln
The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
- Henry David Thoreau