Top 1200 Hands Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.

At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'

The first thing I notice about a girl, is her hands. I like girls with nice hands. ... And she must be spontaneous as well.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

Whenever people ask me: 'Why didn't you get up when the bus driver asked you?' I say it felt as though Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing me down on the other shoulder. I felt inspired by these women because my teacher taught us about them in so much detail.

Stand up for our sick. Stand up for our veterans. Stand up for the elderly. Protect things like Social Security. Stop allowing people to stick their hands in the cookie jar. Create opportunities for people who live in poverty to elevate themselves out of poverty with a hand up, not a hand out. That's what being a Democrat is!

No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in the world as it would if it were divided into moderate sums and in the hands of workmen who had earned it by industry and frugality. The piling up of estates often does great and conspicuous good.... But no man does with accumulated wealth so much good as the same amount would do in many hands.

One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.

Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

A few states have taken redistricting out of the hands of partisans and put them in the hands of fair-minded committees. Every state should do the same.

You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

I threw my hands up. Men. They were impossible to reason with.

People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

Americans are really good at throwing their hands up and walking away from things.

The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it. 2. If you known where you want to go, you're already half way there. Know what you desire but, more imporantly, why you desire it. Then go. 3. hopes and dreams and heart's desires require a clear path-get out of your own way 4. Place hope carefully in your own hands and in the hands of others 5. Persist, if necessary 6. That said, most importantly-know when you've reached an end, Quit, give up, do it with courage. Giving up is not failing-it's the chance to begin again.

I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.

Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

This year, we are going to take our government out of the hands of corporate special interests and put it back into the hands of Ohio families - where it belongs.

I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.

Throw your hands up in the air and celebrate life.

Globalism is a scheme for impoverishing First World labor and taking power and influence from the hands of the many and putting them in the hands of the few.

Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.

Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives.

Earlier, actors had a lot of power in their hands. And now, it has gone in the hands of the directors and writers, and that is how it should be. They are the visionaries, and we are the doers.

I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

It was you that led me to the musical that's everything to me. You held my hands so that I can enter the world that I could only watch. When I fell, you helped me stand up. When the path was closed, you opened it up. You're that kind of person to me.

People are always backing up when I'm just going to shake their hands.

Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands.

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.

He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

Shut up and let me see your jazz hands.

Materialism has come to the rescue of India in a certain sense by throwing open the doors of life to everyone, by destroying the exclusive privileges of caste, by opening up to discussion the inestimable treasures which were hidden away in the hands of a very few who have even lost the use of them. Half has been stolen and lost; and the other half which remains is in the hands of men who, like dogs in the manger, do not eat themselves and will not allow others to do so.

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.

We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.

And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.