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Quotes About Palm

Where'd you get the coconuts?
~ Ernest Cline
Hoh, Boy!" Freddy snorted, slapping his palm to his forehead. "I hope you never donate your brain to science. It would set civilization back fifty years.
~ Bertrand R. Brinley
A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
~ Beryl Markham
The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.
~ Isabella Bird
We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?
~ Catherine Bell
The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
~ Karl Shapiro
I wish there was a machine that could accurately measure sadness, and display it in numbers that you could record. And it would be great if that machine could fit in the palm of your hand. I think of this every time I measure the air in my tires.
~ Haruki Murakami
The evening laid its cool palm against his weary brow as if feeling for a temperature.
~ Michael Chabon
O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
green fronds of a palm tree, while vivid indigo morning glories
~ Sylvia Plath
They had come to her slowly at first, the children—their lives separate and precious, each one a miracle as individual as a snowflake caught on a mittened palm.
~ Tad Williams
Does the 'palm' of your hand ever share any cocoanuts?
~ Francis M. Faber Jr.
Excellent fistibus," said Eldric, but he wasn't done with my hand. He inspected my left palm, the pucker of scars. "There's no fortune to be read in that palm," I said, but of course he wanted to know about it; of course he'd been dying to ask since we first met. "Do you want the version of the story in which I'm a hero, or do you want the true version?" "Both," said Eldric. "Greedy!" I said.
~ Franny Billingsley
she would have been as smooth to his general need of her as handled ivory to the palm.
~ Henry James
It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.
~ Patty Jenkins
Jerry Crosby didn't live on the island. He lived miles away on the mainland, in a western municipality that grandly called itself Royal Palm Beach.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Lying in his dirty palm is a pale green stone.
~ Karen Connelly
Perhaps that's what life is about—the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.
~ Garth Stein
It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.
~ Brian Aldiss
He gripped the crystal heart tightly, felt its broken edges, the torn arteries and veins bite into his palm.
~ Storm Constantine
I'm bored with the routine of a late breakfast of mangos and toast, a long day lying hot and sweaty under a palm tree, and an evening of 'African cultural dance' staged for the tourists by disenchanted locals, followed by a nightly poolside barbecue of big hunks of dead zebra and antelope. This is the Hotel Intercontinental's idea of the African coastal experience. I have to get into town.
~ Kenneth Cain
Recall the cold Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn, Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet, Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's Flurrying, darkness over the human mire.
~ Geoffrey Hill
My whammy system is set up so I can yank the bar up as well as do dive-bombs with it. This means that if I accidentally push down on the bridge with my palm, my strings go sharp and sound out of tune. I make sure this never happens by never resting my hand on the bridge when muting. I always do my muting just in front of the bridge.
~ Dimebag Darrell
PrzyszÅ'o?? zachowa czarnych we wdziÄ™cznej pamiÄ™ci. Przyjdzie taki dzieÅ", kiedy siedzÄ…ce pod palmami mÅ'ode damy ze Å'zami w oczach czyta? bÄ™dÄ… powie?? Ostatni Murzyn. A Niger stanie siÄ™ równie romantycznÄ… rzekÄ… jak Ren. THE END.
~ Sven Lindqvist