Famous quotes containing the words called, tom and/or thumb:
“When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.”
—Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)
“Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 11–12)
“Your small hands, precisely equal to my own—
only the thumb is larger, longer—in these hands
I could trust the world, or in many hands like these,
handling power-tools or steering-wheel
or touching a human face ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)