Famous quotes containing the words thumb, instruction and/or set:
“Your small hands, precisely equal to my own
only the thumb is larger, longerin these hands
I could trust the world, or in many hands like these,
handling power-tools or steering-wheel
or touching a human face ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.”
—George Berkeley (16851753)
“Groot: Now wait a minute, Quo. You really aint gonna take a mans only set of teeth, are ya?
Quo: Uh huh.
Groot: Yeah, but I gotta use em for eatin.
Quo: Come grub you get em.
Groot: Whad ya gonna do with em?
Quo: My name now Two-Jaw Quo.”
—Borden Chase [Frank Fowler] (19001971)