Sinew Quotes

Who is the strong? Not he who puts to test
His sinews with the strong and proves the best;
But he who dwells where weaklings congregate,
And never lets his splendid strength abate. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Under the spreading chestnut tree / The village smithy stands; / The smith, a mighty man is he, / With large and sinewy hands; / And the muscles of his brawny arms / Are strong as iron bands. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: / And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. - Bible

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. - John Burroughs

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. - Ernest Hemingway

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. - Samuel Butler

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. - Andrew Jackson

The furs used in these costumes were mostly road kill. And the clothes are all connected with sinew. This work is both archeological and anthropological, and I've never known any other project of this type that has been done on this level. It's fantastic. - Kevin Jones