Clasp Quotes
50 quotes by 44 authors
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What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of…
— Wilson Mizner
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To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as…
— Baroness Orczy
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Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall…
— Julian Grenfell
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A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate…
— Rod Serling
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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?
— Bruno Schulz
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The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them…
— Genghis Khan
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Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp.…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and…
— J F C Fuller
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Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.
— J.R. Miller
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Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must…
— Phillips Brooks
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We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of…
— Wendell Berry
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I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your…
— Barry Hughart
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They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but…
— Victor Hugo
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Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger My daughter as we walk together now. All my life I'll feel a ring invisibly Circle…
— Stephen Spender
Who Wrote These Clasp Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 50 Clasp Quotes, led by these top contributors: