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Quotes About Palm

Goodbye is the waving map of your palm, is a stone on my tongue.
~ Natasha Trethewey
Indians might have bred the modern peach palm by hybridizing palms from several areas, including the Peruvian Amazon. Whatever the origin, people domesticated the species thousands of years ago and then spread it rapidly, first through Amazonia and then up into the Caribbean and Central America.
~ Charles C. Mann
reach into my travel bag and pull out my hacked Palm computer
~ Charles Stross
As the sun went down on the opposite side of the world, the light on the New Jersey horizon focused to a steady, lambent core the color of a flashlight when you shine it through the palm of your hand under the bedsheets. Lawrence
~ Neal Stephenson
The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.
~ Laini Taylor
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
let grease his palm with a good dose of St. John Goldenmouth's ointment[56
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
These be they that have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.
~ Compton Gage
This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
~ James Agee
A horsefly applied itself, blind fool, to Pnin's bald head, and was stunned by a smack of his meaty palm.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
~ Laurence Leamer
This is going to be the best display in the whole city! . . . Give me another string." Coleman handed it up. "But why do we have to go through all this work if we're just going to take it all down in a couple weeks?" "Because that's the true meaning of Christmas. Running up the December electric bill." Serge draped another strand over a palm frond.
~ Tim Dorsey
Give me the gun. Ranger said. I extracted the gun from my pants and handed it over. Ranger held the gun in the pulm of his hand and smiled. It's warm, he said. He put the gun in the glove compartment and plugged the key into the ignition. Am I fired? No. Any women who can heat up a gun like that is worth keeping around.
~ Janet Evanovich
The city of Charleston, in the green feathery modesty of its palms, in the certitude of its style, in the economy and stringency of its lines, and the serenity of its mansions South of Broad Street, is a feast for the human eye.
~ Pat Conroy
Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred metres, I think it was, every year...The palm tree line...I call it the coffee line, the strong black coffee line...It's rising like mercury in a thermometer, this palm tree line, this strong coffee line, this scandal line, rising up throughout Italy and already passed Rome...
~ Leonardo Sciascia
My mother's name was Palm,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.
~ Dwayne Hickman
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
~ William Shakespeare
The king is at Greenwich,' Brereton says. 'He wants you now.' He has ordinary ways of showing his impatience: slapping his glove against his palm and tapping his foot.
~ Hilary Mantel
He kisses the scar of my palm. I still have his brother's blood under my fingernails. I don't have a ring for him. Above us, the buds are blooming. The whole room smells of flowers.
~ Holly Black
You know what they say bout when your palm itch, Im gonna get money money Im gon get.
~ Lil Wayne
Allí surtiendo de lo oscuro, rompiendo de lo oscuro, serena, pero casi cruel, como una leve diosa recobrada, hete aquí que ella emerge, sagradamente su ademán extendiendo, para que la luz del día, la ya gozosa luz que la asalta, se vierta doradamente viva sobre su palma núbil.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
Her fingers were cool, and her palms were strangely devoid of any lines, as if her life was yet to be determined.
~ Craig Johnson
She held up her hand, palm up—another one of those gestures, their meanings forgotten by everyone except for long-term wackjobs like Dresden.
~ Jim Butcher