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Quotes About Palm

Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.
~ Lisa Brennan-Jobs
They call out to a toddy tapper aloft in a palm tree, who gives them final directions.
~ Abraham Verghese
Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm.
~ Ada Limón
Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
~ Jude Watson
The palm at the end of the mind,Beyond the last thought, rises…A gold-feathered birdSings in the palm.
~ Wallace Stevens
The palm stands on the edge of space. The wind moves slowly in the branches. The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down.
~ Wallace Stevens
Christmas in Southern California was as much an oxymoron as jumbo shrimp.
~ Alan Russell
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
~ William Penn
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
~ William Blake
it would bring good luck. It was a silverfish with gold-threaded scales and when she put it in the palm of my hand, I felt it spring backward as if it was a real fish, something telling in it.
~ Edna O'Brien
Prozor took the head off her beer with a swipe of her hand, then licked at her palm with an unhurried catlike attentiveness.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I like Palm Springs because of the sunshine. It's a little city surrounded by mountains.
~ Udo Kier
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.
~ William Penn
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
~ William Penn
In 1913, Edison donated some replacement palms, but, as Florida historian Michele Wehrwein Albion notes, "the relationship between the town and the Edisons remained somewhat strained.
~ Jeff Guinn
So. In open ocean, drifting blind now, and with no way to stop moving through the dark. It is Artt who's brought them to this extremity, and it's too late for doubt. 'Never mind. We won't founder,' he assures them. 'We travel in the palm of God's hand.
~ Emma Donoghue
I think a lot of people have predicted the demise of cash, and they've frequently been wrong. But there's no question that the smartphone is leading to the digitization of money. You really now have all the power of a bank branch in the palm of your hand.
~ Dan Schulman
The Bertam palm of Malaysia, for example, bears large flowers that exude a sugar-rich nectar. This nectar spontaneously ferments to produce a pungent beverage with some 3.8 percent alcohol by volume (ABV), which is about the strength of the beer traditionally served in British pubs.
~ Rob DeSalle
From psychics to spiritualists to palm readers to graphologists to astrologists, the expert in question either just simply deluded and naive or theyre using a skill called cold-reading.
~ Derren Victor Brown
and the palm fronds of our victories, the worn light bulbs of our discoveries and the empty condoms of our great loves float with no significance against one single, lasting thing—the stream.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The future of the world is in the palm of the tech community.
~ Chamillionaire
Isn't this what happens in the movies a lot? There's some old dude or woman who tells your fortune and is all, 'Oh, you're gonna die or make a boatload of money or meet a girl. Now give me all your cash'?" Boz yammered. Mrs. Smith bristled. "I can tell your fortune right now without even consulting your palm." "You can?" "Yes. You are an idiot. You will always be an idiot.
~ Libba Bray
You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.
~ Anne Carson
His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved. He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool.
~ Robin Hobb