Hands

Famous quotes containing the word hands:

“Love is the unfamiliar Name
Behind the hands that wove
The intolerable shirt of flame
Which human power cannot remove.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and hands there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)

“Here’s our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take thee for pity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)