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Hands Quotes by Wendell Berry
- 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…
- The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem…
- 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…
- Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
- I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure…
- The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand.…
More Hands Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf