Hand Quotes
8515 Hand quotes by 4509 unique authors
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The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches…
— Rodrigue Tremblay
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What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens.…
— Ruth Pitter
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Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden…
— Gary Snyder
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There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with…
— Henry Mitchell
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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets…
— Clinton Scollard
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
— Arthur Ashe
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But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well…
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion…
— Robert Fulghum
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No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
— Lord Byron
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And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the…
— Unknown Author
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
— Benjamin Franklin
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His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.
— Joe Frazier
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Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.
— George Foreman
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There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount…
— George S. Patton
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Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.
— Pittacus of Mytilene
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As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent…
— Celia Thaxter
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Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who…
— Charles Dickens
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Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous…
— Theodore Parker
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I never had any thought the whole week. I figured my caddie [Jerry Beard] knew the course a lot better than me, so I put…
— Fuzzy Zoeller
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The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup.…
— Ken Venturi
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by…
— John Updike
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