Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

“The child hand raised to reach the holding hand. Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“I hold you as a thing enskied, and sainted,
By your renouncement an immortal spirit,
And to be talked with in sincerity,
As with a saint.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long- wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)