Top 635 Body Quotes

Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into the cause of jihad.
Reza Aslan
Your body is your temple, it’s your home, and you must decorate it.
Gabourey Sidibe
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
Deborah Bull
The biggest organ in your body is your skin, and it’s a permeable membrane. Anything you put on it goes into you. If you can’t pronounce most of the words on the back of the bottle, it’s probably not good for you.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.
Bernie Siegel
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi
It’s my body. And I like my body. And I like my breasts. And no, they’re not fake.
Lindsay Lohan
The bread while becoming by virtue of Christ’s words the body of Christ does not cease to be bread.
John Wycliffe
There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
Bjork
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Margaret Sanger
I like to reactivate my body after a long journey by getting the sun in my eyes.
John Torode
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
Barbara Hepworth
Every single one of us will have our life interrupted, whether it’s by the ripcord of a diagnosis or some other kind of heartbreak or trauma that brings us to the floor. We need to find a way to live in the in-between place, managing whatever body and mind we currently have.
Suleika Jaouad
Everybody wants to live. But sometimes the body just gives up.
Amitabh Bachchan
Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
Saint Ambrose
Bodybuilding is about building your body. Whether you do it to maintain your fitness levels, climb Everest, run the marathon, or be a competitive bodybuilder is up to you.
Ronnie Coleman
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
Ralph Adams Cram
I used to refer to myself as a ‘theoretical anorexic,’ just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do – they’re smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?
Ayelet Waldman
When you don’t know how to fight you tend to put all your energy into one punch. That will tire you out quickly. You learn to keep energy in reserve and use your body in an efficient manner.
Tom Payne
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why a

Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, ‘Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?’ That’s what makes me persevere, that’s what makes me keep on going.
Michelle Kwan
My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.
Aurora
I get a lot of the ideas when I’m resting – either when I’m meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That’s where I get my best ideas, maybe because I’m balancing my body.
Katy Perry
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease – the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.
Samuel Smiles
When Hindustan Motors rolled out the first Ambassador Car in 1957 its sturdy body, rounded contours and Mother Earth simplicity immediately bagged it a place in our collective consciousness.
Barkha Dutt
I’m becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.
Matt Damon
Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.
Ariana Grande
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams
Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else’s brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
Mickey Mantle
There’s a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they’re mismatched. That’s all it is. It’s not complicated, it’s not a neurosis. It’s a mix-up. It’s a birth defect, like a cleft palate.
Chaz Bono
If you put junk into your body, your body is going to give you junk results.
Draymond Green
My whole body is a wreck. I’ve injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.
Scott Caan
There are moments when the human body can overcome things you would never expect.
Andres Iniesta
The freeways of America are like giant veins twisting and turning, rushing life from one zone to the next. The landscape is a giant body just lying there feeling the rumble.
Rhys Darby
It’s very hard to be a kid, especially in a predominantly white school or white town where other people want to police your body and hair.
A’Lelia Bundles
At 40, your body and your mind doesn’t do the same thing as it used to do.
Jermaine O’Neal
My mom and grandma, growing up, one thing they emphasized was that you need to make sure that anything you put on your skin is also digestible by the body. For example, if something isn’t safe for me to eat or consume, it’s probably not good for your face. So I do a lot of natural remedies.
Halima Aden
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.
Ben Nicholson
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma Gandhi
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
Thomas Mann
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body – causing me injury or death – to be an assault weapon.
Henry Rollins
I go by my own body type when it comes to fasting, which means that I would not follow some general advice or rule of thumb.
Riya Sen
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.
Emanuel Swedenborg
When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.
Paulo Coelho
I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body… as long as it doesn’t affect anybody else or any other property.
Jack Kevorkian
I don’t use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
Ursula Andress
To give a body and a perfect form to one’s thought, this – and only this – is to be an artist.
Jacques-Louis David
I’ve never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
Jello Biafra
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.
Richard Hammond
It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
Abraham Maslow
Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it’s another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work.
Hussein Chalayan
The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid’s movie. It would be too heavy.
Ben E. King
I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I’ve gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends… one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.
Rita Rudner
When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body – it’s a blessing.
Lou Gehrig
Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone’s face or body.
Devon Aoki
I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.
Joan Rivers
The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
William S. Burroughs
Being pregnant is a conundrum. You have this freedom, because it’s a wonderful time that a human being is growing inside of you, and it is truly magical. On the other hand, your body changes.
Anna Gunn
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.
Muhammad Iqbal
Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.
Stephen Hawking