Hands Quotes

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

I am very hands on doing my own work, all my own stunt work.

When I see myself at 14 years old I can put my hands on my head and think: 'How could I have done that?' but at that time it had sense for me. You do the same when you're 20. And now, when you look at people who are 20 years old you ask yourself: 'Was I like that? Was I really like that?'

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.