Held Quotes

2520 Held quotes by 1751 unique authors

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism. — Iain Banks
The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because… — William James
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would… — Brandon Mull
Forever in your arms Is where I want to be Holding you close Within the space That once held only me... Forever in your warmth… — Walter Dean Myers
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.… — Theodore Roethke
More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago… — Richard Dawkins
And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found… — Alice Sebold
I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held… — Unknown Author
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into… — Rabindranath Tagore
So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said. He nodded. Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me?… — Megan McCafferty
A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell… — Julia Gregson
We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my… — John Green
Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with… — Alice Sebold
Grace. I held on to that name. If I kept that in my head, I would be OK. Grace. I was shaking, shaking; my skin… — Maggie Stiefvater
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing… — Alice Sebold
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird — Jerzy Kosinski
It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible — Mervyn Peake
Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before I leave Australia.… — Jennifer Rardin
Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there… — Harlan Coben
I've got a sweater." Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here." "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm." Then she said,… — Madeleine L'Engle
I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to… — Dennis Lehane
None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was being held in the grip of a… — Richelle Mead
It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing… — Alice Sebold
Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for… — Roger Lowenstein

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