Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

“I like that every chair should be a throne, and hold a king.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.”
—Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)