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Quotes About Clutched

I could hear my dogs barking. Worse I could hear bleating. Joyful goat chuckles of freedom. "The goats!" I clutched my head, an absurdly melodramatic reaction suited to this farce. "The goats were in the tree!" "The... Wait, what?
~ Rosemary Clement-Moore
History (that list of ballooning wishes, flukes, bent times, plunges and mistakes clutched like parachutes) is rolling itself up in your head at one end unrolling at the other.
~ Margaret Atwood
As we approached the forbidding and squalid inn, with the sign of a game-cock above the door, Holmes gave a sudden groan, and clutched me by the shoulder to save himself from falling. He had had one of those violent strains of the ankle which leave a man helpless.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Oh my God, Maddie whispered, horrified. I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer? Tara's heart clutched. He's not dead yet. Hurry, Maddie called to Ford. I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex! I look terrible in orange!
~ Jill Shalvis
No," I said. The grief of the night before had softened, but the weight of it was still there. My voice was low and husky, because my throat was halfway closed, where the hand of sorrow clutched me unawares.
~ Diana Gabaldon
He knew it was there, that opiate of the Anglos. And his hand clutched the box just as the kettle whistled. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.
~ Louise Penny