Hand Quotes

“A queen
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?

Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light.

There you go . . . That was easy!”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

“I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.”
― Alfred de Musset

“Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?”
― Hughes

“He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“There was something behind the softness that intertwined our fingers together—love? It felt different from two days ago. All I could think about was his smooth hand, wrapped in mine. It was more than affection—but I wasn’t sure how much more, or if that would ever change.”
― Alysha Speer, Sharden

“...we find only one tool, neither created nor invented, but perfect: the hand of man.”
― Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Marginal Voices: Selected Stories

“Better a live dog than a dead lion.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

“She held out her hand, like a man. He hesitated, then took the hand and shook it. It was very warm. You could not help but be aware of the wild passage of blood on the other side of its wall, veins, capillaries, sweat glands, tiny factories in the throes of complicated manufacture. [He] looked at the eyes and, knowing how eyes worked, was astonished, not for the first time, at the infinite complexity of Creation, wondering how this thing, this instrument for seeing, could transmit so clearly its entreaty while at the same time—-Look, I am only an eye—-denying that it was doing anything of the sort.”
― Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

“Or one meaning of here is “in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating the presence of,” or in other words, I am here. It also means to hand something to somebody—Here you are. Here, he said to her. Here both recognizes and demands recognition. I see you, or here, he said to her. In order for something to be handed over a hand must extend and a hand must receive. We must both be here in this world in this life in this place indicating the presence of.”
― Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

“Great is the hand that holds dominion over
Man by a scribbled name.”
― Dylan Thomas

“And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came. The hand, running high on its fingertips, scrabbled through the tall grass and up onto a tree stump. It stood there for a moment, like crab tasting the air, and then it made one triumphant, nail-clacking leap onto the center of the tablecloth.
Time slowed for Coraline. The white fingers closed around the black key....”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“As Moses threw whatever in his hand on the ground,
so does hand should do what it can to earn miracles.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Life is a lesson, when you could get it over by your hands, means you just learned it well.”
― kambiz shabankareh, I wish, sleep

“See the hand that nursed the serpent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper

“A hand, since I have taken that example, is not only a part of a body, it is the expression and extension of a thought that must be grasped and rendered. Neither painter nor poet nor sculptor may separate the effect from the cause, which are inevitably containted the one in the other. There begins the real struggle!”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Woman cries for nothing, is sad for no apparent reason
and suffers without anyone knowing why.
And all this goes away as it came: alone and without explanation.
Faced with such a woman,
just approach, be silent, and take his hand.”
― Augusto Branco

“At the age of 52 I damaged the ulnar nerve in my right arm during a 2 hour altitude test at 9,200 feet. I was left with a numb little finger and a weakened right hand.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“A certificate without knowledge is a gun without bullets in your hand.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“If I sought to be immortal, I would have written my eulogy on the hands of the wicked.”
― Florin-Marian Hera, Ten Loud Rocks

“A defining feature of democracy is voting. The one who is FOR raises a hand...on those who are AGAINST.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“The hand that gives, bribes.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Those who applaud you today during your ascension will never hold your hand tomorrow when you fall.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“My high altitude injured right hand is recovering. The hand itself is not injured, it is the injured nerve in the arm that is causing muscle wasting in the hand. It seems to be bruised. Injured nerves can take 1-2 years to recover. Given that it has shown an extensive recovery already, I expect it may fully recover in a year or so. The damaged nerve was an occupational hazard of being an altitude researcher!”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Physiologically, Gef was not a mongoose. He did not possess the almost canine forepaws of his supposed species but tiny articulated, three-fingered (and a thumb) appendages that could manipulate items and, as occasion demanded, squeeze the life out of the rabbits he would gift.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“Education combines the mind, the hand, and the heart.”
― Martha Berry

“When her hand finally came to rest, the palm closed; it was as if she had stopped a crying mouth.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“To identify oneself with all beings does not mean that the body is to be despised. It must be borne as some exterior object, even as Christ bore His Cross. The Spirit must wield the body as the hand wields the hammer.”
― Rudolf Steiner, Esoteric Cosmology