High Hand

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or hand:

    “I remember once dreaming of pushing a canoe up the rivers of Maine, and that, when I had got so high that the channels were dry, I kept on through the ravines and gorges, nearly as well as before, by pushing a little harder, and now it seemed to me that my dream was partially realized.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “You know how cunningly mankind is planned:
    We have one loving and one hating hand.
    The loving’s made to hold each other like,
    While with the hating other hand we strike.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)