Hands

Famous quotes containing the word hands:

“[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)

“The hands were yours, the arms were yours
But you were not there.”
—Mark Strand (b. 1934)

“Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)