Top 549 Cheek Quotes & Sayings

We thought Queen were quite tongue in cheek.

Have you ever been anyone's?" I ask, a feathery whisper in the quiet bedroom. He lifts his head to mine, and I want him so bad I feel consumed inside, like he's already possessed my soul, and now my soul aches for him to possess my body. A powerful emotion tightens his features as he reaches out to cradle my cheek in his big hand, and there's an unexpected fierceness in his eyes, in his touch, as he cups me. "No. And you?" The calluses in his palm rasp on my skin, and I find myself tucking my cheek deeper into them. "I've never wanted to." "Neither have I." The moment is intimate.

The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

I'm tongue in cheek, but very much to the point.

I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.

I never thought life would be this sweet, It got me cheesing from cheek to cheek.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

I am not a pacifist in terms of turning the other cheek.

No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek!

Nothing else is all right.” His whisper tickles my cheek. “But we are.

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.

Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.

Often, my liberal Canadian brethren will claim that 'Canada doesn't get involved in foreign affairs or wars overseas. We turn the other cheek.' No. Canada doesn't have the military might to exercise any option other than to remain uninvolved. They aren't turning the other cheek. They're pulling a Sweden.

Not necessarily, a lot of my songs are firmly tongue in cheek.

My vigour, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Dancing cheek to cheek.

...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

I had a column for the 'Seattle Weekly' for five years, and there was one column that was called 'How To Be A Man,' and it was kind of tongue in cheek; it was really tongue in cheek. And I got a book deal from that column.

Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

I believe in the philosophy of turning the other cheek.

His cheek twitched. With Jeremy, this was the equivalent of an emotional outburst.

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.

There's more to life than cheek bones.

God says, Turn the other cheek. So there's no way I could play in a man's game.

The best bloggers have tongue planted firmly in cheek.

The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

I tend to do stuff that is in some way tongue in cheek or humorous or has a kind of wry side to it.

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

I really don't turn the other cheek. So when I feel like I'm being attacked, I don't back down.

Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant.

Regret is an uneven hand, a rough palm at the cheek — tender and calloused.

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel’s heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del’s hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.

We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked a kiss onto my cheek. “Augustus!” I said. “Friendly,” he said. He pushed himself up again and really stood this time, then took two steps over to my mom and said, “Always a pleasure to see you,” and my mom opened her arms to hug him, whereupon Augustus leaned in and kissed my mom on the cheek. He turned back to me. “See?” he asked.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing.

People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.

We have a lot of villains in the world, all right? And the Catholic doctrine says turn the other cheek, the Christian doctrine. But if you turn the other cheek, you could be annihilated. So when is it justifiable to defend yourself and take aggressive action in that regard, like dropping drones on people?

I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.

What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

the look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek.