Famous quotes containing the word hold:
“There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well- bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I hold all human life dearly, Stearne, especially my own.”
—Michael Reeves (19451969)
“It isnt that I want to hold the children here, its just that I worry about what our life will be like. I dont know what well talk about, just the two of us, after all these years.”
—Anonymous Parents. As quoted in Women of a Certain Age, by Lillian B. Rubin, ch. 2 (1979)
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