Hands Quotes
12486 Hands quotes by 5912 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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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
— Lord Byron
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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your…
— Rudyard Kipling
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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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The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a…
— Wendell Berry
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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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If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
— Augustus
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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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I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go…
— Thomas Jane
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The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.
— Antonio Porchia
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Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.
— Unknown Author
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For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence…
— Saint Augustine
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You hold in your hands the future of the world.
— Unknown Author
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In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures.
— Clement Attlee
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