Little Hands Quotes

• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [55]

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• Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.

  Thomas Jones

  Children, Fall, Opportunity

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• The gruel that children's little hands have stirredIs sweeter than nectar.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Children, Hands, Littles

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• I see you young and soft oh little baby
  Little feet, little hands, little baby
  One year of crying and the words creep up inside
  Creep into your mind
  So much to say

  Dave Matthews

  Baby, Hands, Years

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• The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Eye, Men, Hands

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• I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

  Mother Teresa

  Writing, Hands, Making A Difference

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• We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

  Carl Jung

  Change, Acceptance, Thoughtful

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• Corporations are legal fictions created by the State to shield executives from liability… It’s like if I had a little hand-puppet, and I went to rob a bank, and the hand-puppet held the little gun and told people to hand over all the money, and then the hand-puppet grabbed the money and ran out, and then I got caught and I handed the hand-puppet over the police and then the police tried the hand-puppet, put the hand-puppet in jail, and I get to keep all the money.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Gun, Hands, Jail

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• My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live -- to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love -- loved am I!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Kissing, Hands, Sacred

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.223, Penguin

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• My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.

  Katherine Applegate

  Wall, Glasses, Light

  Katherine Applegate (2012). “The One and Only Ivan”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.

  Carl Sandburg

  Beautiful, Summer, Memories

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Home, Air, Hands

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• I'm always hearing warnings about keeping your belongings close to you [in Ho Chi Minh City] as thieves who ride motorbikes are adept at snatching things off a person as they ride by, but I personally have never seen it. Funny though, I don't hear folks talk about pick pockets but it's happened to me twice. Beware of that cute little sweetheart and stay away from those talented little hands.

  Doug Rice

  Cute, Hands, Cities

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.

  Kit Williams

  Men, Hands, Wheels

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• They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children, or with a group of children, because, from time to time, you see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. It's remarkable and it does, obviously, add another dimension, literally, to the movie.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Children, Kids

  "Steve Carell Interview DESPICABLE ME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

  James Lileks

  Drinking, Coffee, Hands

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• But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

  Isaac Watts

  Children, Passion, Eye

  'Against Quarrelling' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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• O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.

  e. e. cummings

  Clever, Heart, Thinking

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, p.102, Xist Publishing

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• Bernard Hopkins' style is the way...everything he does is for a reason - little head feints, little hand movements, little shoulder rolls and gestures are all finer points of the sweet science. Before contemporary times everyone did that kind of stuff.

  Chris Algieri

  Sweet, Hands, Style

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

  Mother Jones

  Girl, Boys, Hands

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• All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hands, Skills, Afternoon

  Lewis Carroll (1913). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.3, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Who's that little brunette?" Suzanne asked. "I hate little petite types. Gregory doesn't look right with someone petite. Little face, little hands, little dainty feet." "Big boobs," Beth said, glancing up.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Hate, Hands, Feet

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Kissed by an Angel”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• You know, you take a little infant and you turn on the music mobile on their crib and you find that if you give them a music mobile which turns on automatically versus a music mobile in which - if by chance their little legs or their little hands accidentally touches it - turns on they're so much more excited if by chance it turns on because they touched it, so that desire for control over their environment is... really appears from very early on and if you look at children's first words, "no, yes."

  Sheena Iyengar

  Children, Hands, Giving

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

  Jim Henson

  Real, Character, Numbers

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• I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Marriage, God

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