Special Hands

Famous quotes containing the words special and/or hands:

    Research shows clearly that parents who have modeled nurturant, reassuring responses to infants’ fears and distress by soothing words and stroking gentleness have toddlers who already can stroke a crying child’s hair. Toddlers whose special adults model kindliness will even pick up a cookie dropped from a peer’s high chair and return it to the crying peer rather than eat it themselves!
    Alice Sterling Honig (20th century)

    Whate’er she meant by it, bury it with me,
    For since I am
    Love’s martyr, it might breed idolatry,
    If into others’ hands these Reliques came;
    As ‘twas humility
    To afford to it all that a Soul can do,
    So, ‘tis some bravery,
    That since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
    John Donne (1572–1631)