Family Hand Quotes

#1. If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand. - Author: Maureen Howard

#2. As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York. - Author: Reid Scott

#3. I don't remember the first picture I took, but I actually found a picture of myself on a trip back to my old family home in Malaysia. I'm five years old, sitting on the floor with the family camera in my hand. It was a film camera - not a DSLR - with a fixed lens and a nice manual zoom. - Author: Ren Ng

#4. She was uncertain about taking his hand in marriage after he'd revealed to her that his deceased father was a big-time hustler, and his twin brother had taken over the family empire. She was scared. - Author: Aleta L. Williams

#5. A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print. - Author: Marguerite Yourcenar

#6. He held up his hand, and in it was ...
Oh, God.
The neon-pink vibrator, glowing in the dark now. It was following her, stalking her, all the way down the yellow brick road to hell. - Author: Jill Shalvis

#7. I just had his hand in a vise," I protested indignantly. "It wasn't like I had a dagger in his ribs. 'Hand in a vise' is simple assault or, in my case, self-defense. 'Dagger in the ribs' is attempted murder. My family did teach me the difference. - Author: Lisa Shearin

#8. Vacations in my family are rare events squeezed between races. I can count them on one hand, and even those amount to only a few hours each. Shopping in Los Angeles. Sinking my toes into snow white sand in Florida. They are tiny slips of memory strung around horses. - Author: Mara Dabrishus

#9. Does your family play games, too?" She tries to sound off-hand.
"No. Just me - and my brother."
Which means her parents are in the casinos, then, leaving this kid in a collapsing mine. Okay, a virtual one, but still. - Author: Nenia Campbell

#10. Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing. - Author: Abdul Qadeer Khan

#11. He pulled her toward him and gathered her in his arms as his hand lovingly cradled the back of her neck. She stopped breathing as he leaned down - ohmigod, the Adonis was about to kiss her - and planted the softest, most sensual kiss on her lips.
Time stood still on the busy Chicago street. - Author: Jennifer Lane

#12. Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred. - Author: H. G. Bissinger

#13. If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks. - Author: Edith Konecky

#14. They be marching hand in hand, like going to war. - Author: Alice Walker

#15. Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand. - Author: Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#16. Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart. - Author: Dennis Lehane

#17. Children, on the other hand, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was - Author: George Orwell

#18. Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand. - Author: Ilka Chase

#19. I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state. - Author: Dave Heineman

#20. I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family. - Author: B.B. King

#21. Wonderful. What's the point of throwing a hissy fit without friends and family on hand to hear it?
-Amy Cahill - Author: Gordon Korman

#22. Whenever I get three-four days in hand, I fly down to Delhi to spend time with my family and my dog. - Author: Esha Gupta

#23. Her hands flew to her mouth. 'Are we even twins?'
Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. 'I will always be your brother, Sophie. I will always look after you. - Author: Michael Scott

#24. You dumb-ass ape, get your hand off me. What - are you the first in your family to be born without a tail? - Author: Cherise Sinclair

#25. By definition, though, we are family. And in difficult times-- times like these-- despite our differences, we stand together as family. - Author: Stephen King

#26. Watching someone you love die is like driving through a fog. You know you're headed somewhere but you can't see your hand in front of your face; you're so focused on steering without crashing that you never say the things you want to say. - Author: Vikki Wakefield

#27. Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand! - Author: Oscar Pistorius

#28. I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center. - Author: Greg Walden

#29. My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises. - Author: S. Truett Cathy

#30. Thank you, honey," she kept whispering.
"For what?"
"A good life and a beautiful family."
"You had a hand in that," he reminded her.
"I know. We're a team. Thank you for giving me that too. - Author: Kristen Ashley

#31. Blood family, that's something we get dealt. Sometimes we get a bad hand. Not much way around it. You just have to grow up and get more family. The kind you get to pick out yourself. - Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde

#32. My family is healthy and prosperous. Everything we lay our hand to is blessed. - 3 JOHN 2 & DEUTERONOMY 28:8, 11-12 - Author: Joyce Meyer

#33. I prick my hand as I seize the rose from her. "I'll think about it." A small spot of blood forms on my palm and I realize I've been bleeding on the inside this whole time, all these years. It was only a matter of time before it showed on the outside. - Author: Tracy Krimmer

#34. I hate when I'm not done with my cup but my mom decides to put it in the dishwasher anyway and the cup isn't dishwasher safe. I keep telling my mom that my origami coffee mugs are hand wash ONLY. Handshakes are also hand wash only.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz - Author: Karen Quan

#35. A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love. - Author: June Masters Bacher

#36. He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation. - Author: Seneca The Younger

#37. My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion. - Author: Wentworth Miller

#38. I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there. - Author: Kathryn Harrison

#39. Elias revved the engine menacingly. I put my hand on the steering wheel. "That's my mom! Don't even think about it." "How about I just back over the ones behind us?" " Or the ones on the sidewalk," one of the guys in the backseat suggested. "Be serious," I said, though they might have been. - Author: Tate Hallaway

#40. It's quite the family reunion we're having in here. - Author: Cynthia Hand

#41. Because you have honored God, He will put you in a position you never could have attained on your own. It's not just your education, not just your talent, or the family you come from. It's the hand of God shifting you to a new level of your destiny. - Author: Joel Osteen

#42. Will you please talk to him? Have some sort of man-to-man exchange?" Gabriel cleared his throat and placed a fatherly hand on Zeb's shoulder. "Loving family members do not aim for each other's soft tissues. - Author: Molly Harper

#43. I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment. - Author: Cynthia Hand

#44. I mean, I would never want to do anything to hurt my family, but then again I would never want to do anything to hurt myself. And I think they go hand in hand. - Author: Lauren Bush

#45. I got to thinking - when it was too late - you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your hand out. If they slap it back, well you reach out again if you care enough. If you don't care enough, you forget about them, if you can. - Author: Cynthia Voigt

#46. Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand. - Author: David W. Earle

#47. Nostalgia reaches into the past with both hands to grasp what is already gone and likely never will be again. Legacy reaches into the past with one hand to grasp what is teachable and passes it forward with the other hand to the next generation. - Author: Al Ainsworth

#48. Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family. - Author: Abu Bakar Bashir

#49. Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little. - Author: Mason Cooley

#50. I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday? - Author: Erma Bombeck

#51. My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still waiting for clarity on the future. - Author: Withered Hand

#52. You're so fucking stubborn," Beau says. "Gee," Kate adds with a roll of the eyes. "I have no idea where she might have come by that. It's not like it's a family trait or anything." "Watch yourself," Eli says and kisses Kate's hand. "Punishments happen." "Excuse - Author: Kristen Proby

#53. He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand. - Author: Dan Fogelberg

#54. Was that really all there was to love? Darkness undone, a hand on your forehead. In the meantime all you could do was wait
tired, alone, the minutes as long or short as a lifetime
for the face in your dream to appear. - Author: Eric Puchner

#55. The experience of both acting and producing has been wonderful. It certainly has created a full plate. But it is very exciting and rewarding to have creative input on the show. 'Reed' is about love and family and for me, playing a hand in shaping it has been deeply gratifying. - Author: Tracee Ellis Ross

#56. Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care. - Author: Dave Obey

#57. I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for. - Author: Howard Schultz

#58. On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance. - Author: Yelena Baturina

#59. Then the flight attendants, garbage bags in hand, glided down the aisle, looking each one of us square in the face and whispering, without discrimination, Your trash. You're trash. Your family's trash. - Author: David Sedaris

#60. There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you're down. - Author: Wes Fesler

#61. To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. - Author: Oscar Wilde

#62. My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed. - Author: Bill Toomey

#63. Figure it out!" We always had to figure it out, so you can, too! We didn't have the luxury of people explaining why I couldn't use my left hand or why his family had no money. We just figured it out. But love is a funny thing. - Author: Eddie Huang

#64. Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around. - Author: Smokey Robinson

#65. One reason why I started fighting was because of my family, and with that, you gotta pay the bills, but I enjoy beating people up in the first place, so it plays hand in hand. Beating up, and getting money! - Author: Houston Alexander

#66. Oh, brothers and sisters, families can be forever! Do not let the lures [or the irritants] of the moment draw you away from them! Divinity, eternity, and family
they go together, hand in hand, and so must we! - Author: Spencer W. Kimball

#67. I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. - Author: Mohamed ElBaradei

#68. The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life. - Author: Adolph Kolping

#69. To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness. - Author: Per Petterson

#70. It was like that hand on The Adams Family. Only... a vagina." - Steve - Author: Lucian Bane

#71. The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone's hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting the other party as if they were responsible for a past death in your family, or your adoption as a child. - Author: Wes Locher

#72. For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules
it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules. - Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

#73. I try to act cool. I've never had a hand on my thigh, under the table. Cathy - my brother's wife - is telling a very funny story about the family's trips to Bridlington, and her elderly Grandmother is doling out peas, which makes the experience even stranger. - Author: Charlotte Stein

#74. Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#75. How I wish, how fervently I ache, to take my mother's hand, kiss her check,tell her I love her, and watch her smile. For me it was not, nor can ever be. But for you, reach out now. Reach out for your mother's hand-the hands of those you love. Say I love you.
Don't wait. - Author: M.J. Burke Sr.

#76. Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell. - Author: Andre Geim

#77. And you see his blue eyes, the blue eyes of all the family
whom you used to know, grow narrow and glisten,
his hand types out the details
and he wants them all
but the hysteria in your voice pleases him best. - Author: Adrienne Rich

#78. On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on. - Author: Madonna Ciccone

#79. If I'm going to try and find something, I stick to the flea markets, or I pull hand-me-downs from my family because I like pieces to have stories. - Author: Troian Bellisario

#80. I'm sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers ... - Author: Stephan Lawrence Theodore Clifford

#81. Oil and Water, Daddy calls us. At four years younger than me, Katie is only fourteen and she already has half the boys in town eating from her pretty little hand. She tells me I am too tall and too wicked looking to capture the heart of any sensible young man. - Author: Gwenn Wright

#82. What I would say to people right now is that you can't count on anything that you don't do yourself," Jim said. "If your hand don't put it there, and you don't provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can't count on anybody else to do it for you. - Author: Dale Maharidge

#83. Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that? - Author: Orson Scott Card

#84. If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing. - Author: Carl Hiaasen

#85. As I held the family Bible in my hand and I could almost feel the joys and sorrows that connected me to the past. - Author: Nancy B. Brewer

#86. Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for 'doing the best' for his children? - Author: Eva Figes

#87. Would you have left a guy being beat up to go find a teacher?' I asked.
My father, he wiped his hand across his face, and what was left behind was a smile.
Really, a smile.
'Not in a million years,' he said. - Author: Gary D. Schmidt

#88. She wasn't sure if she even needed him anymore and the thought made her sad. In consolation, she offered him a kind smile and reached for his dependable hand. - Author: Tan Redding

#89. The thing about families is that you rarely get to choose them since you tend to be born into one and be a part of it. The family, on the other hand, tends to choose you and become a part of you, whether or not you grow to like it or will yourself to want. - Author: Tristan Wood

#90. When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand. - Author: Earl B. Russell

#91. My grandma raised her eyes to the heavens, put her hand on her heart and sighed dramatically. "Dear God, one day let my family love me for my soul instead of my remarkably elegant possessions, my shoe box full of cash, and my outstanding high-interest-rate back account... - Author: Emily Cassel

#92. I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family. - Author: Claire Denis

#93. I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot. - Author: Eddie Redmayne

#94. I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter. - Author: John Irving

#95. On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone. - Author: Rocco Buttiglione

#96. No," Trey says. "Males rarely touch each other." "Really?" "And females rarely touch males they don't know or who aren't a part of their family," he adds, making me feel awkward all of a sudden. I've been holding his hand all day, I think, feeling stupid. - Author: Amy A. Bartol

#97. The first time I bring a girl home, and not only is she the daughter of a famous poker player, but she could easily bankrupt us all in a single hand. For being the family fuckup, I felt like I had finally gained a little respect from my older brothers. And it was all because of Abby. - Author: Jamie McGuire

#98. Fang snorted in disbelief. On one hand, we have a mythical nice family that wants to adopt me. On the other, we have a gang of insane scientists desperate to do genetic experiments on innocent children. Guess which hand I get dealt? - Author: James Patterson

#99. Nathan kissed Madeline on the cheek and shook Ed's hand enthusiastically. He took an ostentatious relish in the civility of his dealings with his ex-wife and family. - Author: Liane Moriarty

#100. The Family in particular, but also other really **** conservatives come to call what is "Biblical Capitalism." The idea that capitalism is ordained in the Bible and that inasmuch as we interfere with the market, we're interfering with God's literal and visible hand. - Author: Jeff Sharlet