Hand To Hold Quotes

#1. The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them. - Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. I wish I had a brush that could paint the whole sky and turn every morning into night. I wish I could always sleep next to you in the never ending night and hold your hand, watching the reflection of all the stars in your eyes, while you smile and watch them in the sky with wonder. - Author: Akshay Vasu

#3. He knew then he was in danger. Very real danger. No woman had ever given him a gift or spoken to him as she did. Or tied him in these breathless knots. Or left him so aroused just by standing close and letting him hold her hand. - Author: Jayne Fresina

#4. I seem to remember sitting on a golden bench, and she started chattering about the sunset, or something. She seemed quite happy so I let her get on with it. Then she got hold of my hand and asked me what I was thinking about. So I said, "The treatment of anal fistulae". - Author: Ruth Downie

#5. All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father. - Author: Black Kettle

#6. I don't care that you don't want anyone to look after you. I want to look after you. I want to be with you, Maci. I want to see where the road takes us together, and I want to hold your fucking hand, whether it's shaking or not. Do you understand? - Author: Cherie M. Hudson

#7. I want more than that. I want you. I want to be able to kiss you anytime I want. I want to hold your hand in the halls. Hell, I want to be made fun of by the guys for wanting to be near you all the time. - Author: Abbi Glines

#8. Because I want to know if I'm allowed to kiss your tears away. Because I want to be able to hold your hand. Because I like you. - Author: J.B. McGee

#9. But children die how they have been living-with hope. They don't what is happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand-but you end up needing them to hold yours. - Author: Tea Obreht

#10. As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine may be As to an intricate lock the simple key. - Author: John Barlas

#11. May you never lay your head down, without a hand to hold. May you never make your bed out in the cold. - Author: John Martyn

#12. It hit him in that moment in a way he knew he'd never forget that he could take that hand and she could lead him anywhere. Just tip up her lips, turn those eyes to him and hold out her hand and he'd go straight to hell with her and do it smiling. - Author: Kristen Ashley

#13. I've been trying not to be a big baby by insisting on holding his hand in front of the angels, but the urge is strong. I don't want to embarrass him even when he's unconscious. But now that the others are gone, I sit beside him and hold his hand. It's warm, and I pull it to my chest to warm me up. - Author: Susan Ee

#14. To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations. - Author: Anna Garlin Spencer

#15. I'm Chip Martin," he announced in a deep voice, the voice of a radio deejay. Before I could respond, he added, "I'd shake your hand, but I think you should hold on damn tight to that towel till you can get some clothes on. - Author: John Green

#16. The anger and shame of these women I hold in one hand, and the basin in the other. The distance between the two, the length I pace and try to measure, is the size of an abortion. - Author: Sallie Tisdale

#17. God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice. - Author: Henry Ward Beecher

#18. You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God. - Author: Holly Lynn Payne

#19. Didn't you hear a word I said to you the entire time we were together? You're my whole world Layla. You hold my universe in your hand and no matter where I go, who I'm with or what I'm doing, you are right there with me. Here. - Author: Marie Coulson

#20. Stay away from me, Nick." She held out a hand to hold him off.
He grabbed her arm and pulled her against his chest. "I can't," he said softly. - Author: Rachel Gibson

#21. I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self. - Author: Rick Santorum

#22. Bella, I love you, kid, he said in case she could hear. Fear brushed the walls of his chest, circling inside him like a bat in a house. Then he got hold of it. He wanted to get something for her, anything, but he did not want her to feel him let go of her hand. - Author: Thomas Harris

#23. To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. - Author: William Blake

#24. Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. - Author: Lord Chesterfield

#25. Desperately, his mind raced as he cried, trying to make time go backward, to do it again differently, to ignore the voices, to keep hold of her hand, to save her. - Author: Terry Goodkind

#26. I grabbed a bottle of glass cleaner because it comforted me to hold something in my hand that had a trigger, such as it was. I - Author: Adam Rex

#27. She wished so much for the presence of the boys, or Calla, or her mother, or - she had so many people that she took for granted, all the time. She had never needed to be truly afraid before. There had always been another hand to catch her, or at least to hold hers as they fell together. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#28. My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing. - Author: Lyle Lovett

#29. I know what you're going through is terrifying and unfair and really hard. But you have to go through it. Right now, you're just standing still. You're sinking in it. Let me hold your hand and go through it with you. - Author: Lisa Genova

#30. Take my hand and hold on tight.
We are going into the land of "Out Grandpa's Backdoor".
You can join all our magic with my animal friends and me.
Do you think it is great to dream and pretend?
Create your land of dream and pretend! - Author: William F. Mapel

#31. I've never needed government to hold my hand. - Author: Aaron Lewis

#32. Life is a short, wild ride. Don't try to put the brakes on, don't over-analyze or try to control it. If you're lucky, like I was, you'll find that perfect someone who'll sit next to you and hold your hand through every curve, every up and down. - Author: Emma Chase

#33. I feel like I'm going crazy: seeing you every day but never being able to - to hold you, to touch you when anyone else is around. i just want to take your hand, kiss you, hug you, without having to hide all the time. All those things every other couple takes for granted! - Author: Tabitha Suzuma

#34. I wanted to hug him, tell him it was gonna be alright. Tell him I'm not as fragile as I look. But I can't hug him. I can't even hold his hand. I can't tell him it's gonna be alright, because it's not; not as long as he's dead and I'm alive. - Author: Janae Mitchell

#35. Distraught I seize mine arms ... And with my comrades hasten to the hold: frenzy and anger urge my headlong will, and death methinks how comely, sword in hand! - Author: Virgil

#36. I don't want to lose you."
He reaches for my hand and pulls me to him. "You are not going to lose me," he says, peering down at me. "I promise."
I want to believe him so badly. I need to believe him. "What if you lose me?"
He smiles at me, his grip hard. "Then I'll just hold on tighter. - Author: Karina Halle

#37. I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep! - Author: Edgar Allan Poe

#38. Things only get darker from here, doll. Might want to hold my hand for this. - Author: Victoria Scott

#39. But sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady. - Author: Kristin Hannah

#40. To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world - Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

#41. She longed to hold my hand in the light, not only in the shadows. - Author: Brittainy C. Cherry

#42. If you want," he told her, "the dog'll go."
"I want."
"The dog really scares you that much?"
She held out her hand, tried to hold it steady but couldn't. "No, I always shake like this. - Author: Suzanne Brockmann

#43. Maybe one day you'll understand I don't want nothing more than to sweetly hold your hand. - Author: Regina Spektor

#44. It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords. - Author: Tommy Shaw

#45. 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

#46. It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear. - Author: Mariah Carey

#47. The left hand holds the power of weakness; the right, the power of strength. I wish my actions to be ruled by the power of weakness, so I hold my staff in my left hand. You hold your scepters in the right hand; your actions are ruled by the power of strength. Of might. Of tyranny. - Author: Lena Karynn Tesla

#48. BOB PROCTOR If you see it in your mind, you're going to hold it in your hand. - Author: Rhonda Byrne

#49. If you hold tightly to the teaching of the Bible, God will always give you something in your other hand to hold as well. - Author: Unknown

#50. I love you. Not your body, not your face." I hold her hand to my chest. "As you are. As you will be. - Author: Jordan Locke

#51. Give Yarvi the knife since he has just one hand to hold it. One hand, perhaps, but the blood of kings in his veins!"
"It's keeping it there that worries me," said Yarvi under his breath. - Author: Joe Abercrombie

#52. Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand. - Author: Sextus Propertius

#53. Without a word, Carolyn held him ... for a long, long time. Then, presently, she stood up, took hold of his hand and led him back to her bed, where she proceeded to put him back together again, piece by piece. - Author: Linda Lael Miller

#54. Children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can. - Author: Nan Fairbrother

#55. Rory said he loved me but wouldn't hold my hand in public. & he wanted so badly to end the pain, but it never went away, it stayed with the people that loved him. - Author: Christopher Soto

#56. No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his footsteps as they falter and almost stumble, and this is so because the weakness of his free will may cause him to lose balance, and if he falls he may perish forever. - Author: John Cassian

#57. It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender - Author: Leonard Cohen

#58. It is bodies that makes us real. What is a soul without eyes to look through or hand to hold? - Author: Laini Taylor

#59. It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
[Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.] - Author: Ovid

#60. Sometimes all it takes is a kind person to take you by the hand, hold you tightly, and gently whisper, Everything's going to be all right. - Author: Charles F. Glassman

#61. Things end. Everything ends. But for a few days in a city full of hunger, and avarice, and alienation - in this fucked-up mess of a life spent wandering in the dark without a hand to hold on to - I was not alone. And neither were you. - Author: Julio Alexi Genao

#62. He never tried anything other than to kiss her, hold her hand; often, in his company, she felt boredom rise in her like a stifled yawn. - Author: Laura Barnett

#63. My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing. - Author: Ross Macdonald

#64. I had never in all my life felt so elated. Peter cared for me! It was a miracle I longed to celebrate - to tell all Hertfordshire - and I had to hold my hand to my mouth against an involuntary smile. - Author: Jennifer Paynter

#65. A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free. - Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

#66. What exists in this heart is not imaginary. This hand would not grasp air in trying to hold you, nor this eye blind itself in searching for you in vain. - Author: Chrissy Moon

#67. Man to God: "I've let you down so many times."

God to man: "You weren't holding me up. I uphold you with My righteous right hand. That's how it works in this relationship. I - hold - you - up. - Author: The Skit Guys

#68. People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#69. We all have our moments of being fed up ... but give me your hand and I'll hold it. If you are being bullied I am thinking of you. You are not alone and it will get better. Don't let them win. It's okay not to be okay. - Author: Jessie J.

#70. If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra. - Author: Jools Holland

#71. To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour. - Author: William Blake

#72. Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today. - Author: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#73. Good." Matty took a deep breath. "See the North Star?" Rob squeezed his hand. "No." "Well, it's up there. And you told me once to always remember." Rob swallowed hard and took hold of Matty's chin, bringing his gaze from the sky to meet Rob's own. "I remember, Matty." "Well, good. Don't forget. - Author: Leta Blake

#74. But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp. - Author: Cynthia Hand

#75. I can't make those two realities
what I've lost and what I've found
fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have to hold them on the one hand and on the other, just like that. - Author: Kate Braestrup

#76. Your half empty..

A broken glass,

I love you can sound so beautiful

Until you stop to listen

That terrible background noise,

you have no idea how bad I want to hold you

But I'm afraid I'll cut my hand. - Author: Brittany Williams

#77. Someone knew I'd need to hold your hand before I ever had one. - Author: Jamie McGuire

#78. I had a dream I was walking down the street and didn't have to hold anyone's hand - Author: Kelly Oxford

#79. The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:. - Author: Charlotte Mason

#80. I have tried to tell him in a dozen different ways that I am only six inches tall. I've told him I am as tall as his heart, that he could hold all of me in his hand, that I am shorter than I appear. Every time, he's acted as though I'm saying something romantic or poetic. - Author: Jennie Bates Bozic

#81. I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand and say to you, "Do not fear, I will help you." Isaiah 41:13 - Author: Beth Moore

#82. The best way to expose our ignorance is to hold on to biased ideas and opinions, because we fear giving the upper hand to the other side. - Author: Charles F. Glassman

#83. Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens. - Author: John Darnielle

#84. Such was a poet and shall be and is
-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand. - Author: E. E. Cummings

#85. I, on the other hand, felt as I always have, like I were water seeping from a broken pot; I existed but had no form to hold me in place. - Author: Krishna Udayasankar

#86. The very feel of her hand, even through its glove, was reassuring; it was the sort of hand, he thought, that children would like to hold in the dark. - Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim

#87. A couple of years ago, I would have agreed that she did need to protect her heart from me, but now I don't want her to. I want her to let down her defenses and take a chance. I want her to hold my hand and fall with me. - Author: Lexi Ryan

#88. You hold the key. And you can keep it in your hand for as long as you need to. But there will come a point where you're ready to use that key to break out of the jail you've put yourself in. Only you can set yourself free. - Author: Brenda Rothert

#89. 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side. - Author: George Benson

#90. If I hold her hand she says, 'Don't touch!'
If I hold her foot she says 'Don't touch!'
But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know. - Author: Chinua Achebe

#91. The blade gleamed in his hand, making my knees go so weak that I had to hold onto the car. Even watching him use a butter knife on an unsuspecting piece of toast was enough to make my whole body burn, inciting an erection under the table that would last long past dessert. - Author: Nicole Castle

#92. I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter ... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside. - Author: Mark Kostabi

#93. Hold me like you hold the hand of a little kid who needs you in loneliness, bite my fingers like you bite a giggling kid in front of her friends, and play with me like you play with a kid who only has a few days to live. - Author: M.F. Moonzajer

#94. May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand. - Author: Anonymous

#95. A beautiful thought: It's just meaningless to except your partner to be of your kind because you can't hold someone right hand in your right hand to walk together. - Author: Herryicm

#96. In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm. - Author: Jeanette Winterson

#97. Being a mother is about protecting your children from every conceivable thing that might cause them hurt, but it's also about trusting them to live the best way for them, the best way they can; and trusting that even when you are not there to hold their hand, they can succeed. - Author: Rowan Coleman

#98. No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant. - Author: Frederick Douglass

#99. In the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them. - Author: Stephen Chbosky

#100. Oh," I thought, "without a doubt, everything in my life is falling to pieces. Nothing that my hand grasps can my hand hold. - Author: Andre Gide