Handed Quotes
537 Handed quotes by 464 unique authors
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« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style.Â
— Ilona Andrews
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I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the…
— Veronica Roth
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I’m pretty certain my worthless heart shatters inside my chest, and she steals one of the pieces. If it didn’t already belong to someone else…
— Jessica Sorensen
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Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep…
— John Mason Brown
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So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on…
— Herman Melville
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I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out…
— Ray Bradbury
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To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?
— Yuri Gagarin
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It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down…
— John F. Kennedy
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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I…
— Mickey Mantle
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every…
— Lady Gregory
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Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little…
— Nick Frost
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By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So…
— Blake Shelton
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My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.
— Kelly Wearstler
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Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after…
— Elaine Pagels
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Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it.…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.
— Caroline Leavitt
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My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing,…
— John Updike
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At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways…
— Sebastian Coe
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As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the…
— Christopher Lee
Who Wrote These Handed Quotes
464 authors contributed a total of 537 Handed Quotes, led by these top contributors: