Handing Quotes

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. (George Bernard Shaw)
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. View quote
Jim Bishop
We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important. View quote
Bruce Babbitt
The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river. View quote
Anthony de Mello
No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities. View quote
Karl Dönitz
I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity. View quote
Markus Zusak
If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness. View quote
Mindy Kaling
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Giving me a new idea is like handing a cretin a loaded gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang, bang. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism. (Wendell Berry)
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. View quote
Ethel Waters
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. View quote
Michelle Malkin
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. View quote
Polly Toynbee
You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one. View quote
Preston Sturges
We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people. View quote
Sherrod Brown
There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister. View quote
Tahj Mowry
I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Bob Hope: Put your head back through there, or I'll start handing out baseballs to the audience. View quote
Jack Benny
Marriage is what marriage is. Marriage existed before there was a government. It's like, you know, handing up this and saying this glass of water is a glass of beer. Well, you can call it a glass of beer, but it's not a glass of beer. It's a glass of water. And water is what water is. Marriage is what marriage is. (Rick Santorum)
You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules. View quote
Kim Wilde
If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you? (28) [tr. Elizabeth Carter]. View quote
Epictetus
I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers. View quote
Alice Walker
You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles. View quote
Cecelia Ahern