Old Hands Quotes
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For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.
— Gustave Flaubert
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.
— Antonio Porchia
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,I had a beautiful friend
And dreamed that the old despair
Would end in love in the end ... — William Butler Yeats
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
— Alexander Pope
I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted not my hand held by an old smoothie. — William Safire
In old Egypt, it was established law, that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands. I think it was much under-estimated.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
— Moshe Dayan
Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps.
— Kate Morton
Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.
— Winston Graham
In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery ...
— John Le Carre
When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her ...
— Meg Medina
The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.
— Roman Payne
I just shook hands with a naked goddess. What was that she called you? She-ya-han? Does that mean dumbass in Old Irish or something?
— Kevin Hearne
I just didn't feel old enough to have children...I had my hands full with a vampire, thank you very much.
— L.J. Hayward
A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.
— Joe Eszterhas
We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand.
— Old Tom Morris
I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.
— Thomas Jefferson
For it is said in old lore, 'The hands of the king are the hands of a healer.' And so the rightful king could ever be known.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
— Louisa May Alcott
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all! ... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
— Charles Dickens
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
— Anne Bradstreet
And then they saw bearded Billy Pilgrim in his blue toga and silver shoes, with his hands in a muff. He looked at least sixty years old.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
— Jonathan Carroll
A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
I was born and raised in L.A. My father was born and raised in L.A. So we're old hands here.
— Tim Matheson
But I'm getting to it. I can't come at it cold. I'm warming my hands over old stories.
— Bernie Mcgill
You'll get my assault weapon when you pry it out of my curious six-year-old's cold dead hands.
— Anthony Jeselnik
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
— Roger Scruton
Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, ... Look at what you have now.
— Barbara Delinsky
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
Old hands can hold memories of good things.
— Sarah Addison Allen
She would turn from him in bed, her hands under the pillow, the digital clock peeling back the old skins of numbers.
— Lorrie Moore
I felt an old, visceral insecurity that manifested itself in an impulse to cover up our cribbage game, to literally shield the board with my hands.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
It was as if the bones and veins were working their way to the surface; as if the skin were water receding to expose shapes at the bottom of a harbor.
— Jonathan Franzen
The young have hopes and dreams, while the old hold the remains of them in their hands and wonder what has happened to their lives.
— Tan Twan Eng
His hands were freezing, but he couldn't milk with gloves. "Sorry about the cold hands, old girl," he apologized to the cow before he started. — Carolyn Brown
No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone ... you answer it.
— Dave Chappelle
his hands clasped over a huge carved walking-stick, and a big old woman, sitting upright, with a roll of knitting on her embroidered
— Katherine Mansfield
Justice is in the hands of the gods, an old poet wrote, mortal hands hold only mercy and the sword.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
All hands drowned, except the Red Hound of Mykenos, who bit the sea until it spit him back. Old
— Catherynne M Valente
Theodora glared at me, but Mrs. Murphy Sallis gave me a brief smile and offered me her hand, which was as smooth and soft as old lettuce.
— Lemony Snicket
