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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

They've had the old clap-yo'-hands so many times it amounts to applause. — Truman Capote

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 feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror. — John Updike

Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously. — Lord Byron

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

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan

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

One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing. — Tommy Lee

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

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days. — Steffi Graf

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

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. — J.P. Donleavy

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

Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand. — Ted Lowe

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

My inner goddess is jumping up and down, clapping her hands like a five year old. — E.L. James

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

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old. — Jackie Collins

A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face. — Robin Schone

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves. — Kate Forsyth

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

Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems. — Faith Hunter

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go
cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other. — Ava Gardner