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His Hands Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
- A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.
- Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.
More His Hands Quotes
- Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands. — Brigitte Bardot
- I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. — Charles Baudelaire
- I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. — Tony Blair
- Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands. — Julie Andrews
- Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you… — Martin Luther
- God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays. — John Masefield
- Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there. — Edward McKendree Bounds
- "None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands.… — Swami Vivekananda
- He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. — Woodrow Wilson
- To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face… — Li-Young Lee
- Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery