Holding Hands Quotes

• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

  Ernest Gaines

  Motivational, Respect, Integrity

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• There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

  Timothy Keller

  Inspirational, Hands, People

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• Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

  Nicole Krauss

  Hands, Together, Way

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.73, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You might think being the target of an international terrorist organization, an amnesiac, and a girl with hair dyed in the middle of the night by Macey McHenry would make people stare at you. Well, try walking into the Grand Hall with seriously puffy eyes while holding hands. With a boy.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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• And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hands, Together, World

  Gail Feinstein Forman, Robert Fulghum (1994). “It All Started in Kindergarten: Unforgettable Stories for Listening and Conversation”, Prentice Hall

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• I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Stars, Angel, Hands

  FaceBook post by Cyndi Lauper from May 19, 2014

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  You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

  Amy Poehler

  Inspirational, Fear, Hands

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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• If you are holding hands with others, you can't hold a gun!

  Alan Rufus

  Gun, Hands, Hand Holding

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• I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Dream, Kings

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 28, 2013

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• And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel—” “I’m not sleeping with Laurel. We’re dating.” “Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs.” “For a while. Minus the singing.

  Nora Roberts

  Song, Sleep, Moon

  Nora Roberts (2010). “Savor the Moment”, p.89, Penguin

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• In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

  Victor Hugo

  Hands, Fists, Peace And Love

  "Toilers of the Sea".

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• We all have our moments of being fed up ... but give me your hand and I'll hold it. If you are being bullied I am thinking of you. You are not alone and it will get better. Don't let them win. It's okay not to be okay.

  Jessie J

  Thinking Of You, Winning, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jessie J from Mar 08, 2013

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• Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.

  Miranda Hart

  Hands, Listening, Stranger

  Miranda Hart (2012). “Is It Just Me?”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• Holding her hand in public is just another way of saying you're proud to have her.

  Drake

  Hands, Proud, Way

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• I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Girl, Dream, Boys

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• I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.

  Solomon Burke

  Jumping, Hands, Lines

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• Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

  Argus Hamilton

  Easter, Brother, Holiday

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• The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

  Alan Bennett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reading

  The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Love, Life, Family

  "Sometimes Youthful Stupidity is a Better way to Find Happiness than Making Mature Choices" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.

  Rachel Gibson

  Morning, Couple, Night

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• Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty.

  John Bytheway

  Good Night, Goodnight, Honesty

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• When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Art, Hands

  Robert Mapplethorpe, Edmund White (1995). “Altars”, Vintage

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• You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way.

  Meg Medina

  Mother, Children, Book

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• Technology is killing us. We think it's helping us but it's killing us. Don't ask me why because I don't have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let's all hold hands and draw spider monkeys.

  Thom Yorke

  Technology, Thinking, Hands

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• The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  Karl Shapiro

  Real, Race, Hands

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