Palms Quotes
380 quotes by 314 authors
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I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
— Stephan Jenkins
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A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while…
— Ron Chernow
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A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and…
— Beryl Markham
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Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space.…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here…
— Ernie Holmes
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The end of the rope stops in the palm of God.
— Dillon Burroughs
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On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then…
— Carrot Top
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...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her…
— Barbara Hambly
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Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the…
— Mencius
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Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused…
— Sarah Kay
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I had learned how it felt to want more than the sweet touch of hand to cheek or lips to palm, more than a kiss,…
— Juliet Marillier
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O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the…
— Celia Thaxter
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Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms…
— George Eliot
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Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.
— Weegee
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Perhaps that is what life is all about—the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order…
— Garth Stein
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This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in…
— John Hodgman
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O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees…
— Kathleen Raine
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There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his…
— Aesop
Who Wrote These Palms Quotes
314 authors contributed a total of 380 Palms Quotes, led by these top contributors: