Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

    You shall fear the LORD your God; him alone you shall worship; to him you shall hold fast, and by his name you shall swear.
    Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 10:20.

    I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with whom you endeavor to talk soon come to a stand against some institution in which they appear to hold stock,—that is, some particular, not universal, way of viewing things. They will continually thrust their own low roof, with its narrow skylight, between you and the sky, when it is the unobstructed heavens you would view.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Gentlemen in England now abed
    Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)