Handed

Famous quotes containing the word handed:

“Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call “history” by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World history ... only comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)

“sailing
In sunlight smiling under their goggles swapping batons back and
forth
And He who jumped without a chute and was handed one by a diving
Buddy.”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)