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Famous quotes containing the word arms:
“All over this land women have no political existence. Laws pass over our heads that we can not unmake. Our property is taken from us without our consent. The babes we bear in anguish and carry in our arms are not ours.”
—Lucy Stone (18181893)
“As a particularly dramatic gesture, he throws wide his arms and whacks the side of the barn with the heavy cane he uses to stab at contesting bidders. With more vehemence than grammatical elegance, he calls upon the great god Caveat Emptor to witness with what niggardly stinginess these flinty sons of Scotland make cautious offers for what is beyond any question the finest animal ever beheld.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“What was it that drove these thousands into the arms of his artwhat but the blissfully sensuous, searing, sense-consuming, intoxicating, hypnotically caressing, heavily upholsteredin a word, the luxurious quality of his music?”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)