#hand

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#values

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time. ↗

— George Sutherland

#carved #epitaph #failed #forth #freedom

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich? ↗

— Jay Livingston

#children #handsome #i #mother #my own

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#first #front #glass #hand #how

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

#handled #i #lens #moment #tender

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. ↗

— Paul Celan

#basic #between #cannot #difference #hands

...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed... ↗

— John Geddes

#bruise #hands #shiny #skin #transparent

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. ↗

— J.P. Donleavy

#plastic-surgery #youth #age

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. ↗

— Michelangelo

#execute #eye #eyes #hand #hands

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#brain #craftsman #hands #heart #his