Palm may refer to :
- Palm, the central region of the front of the hand, see Hand#Human anatomy or metacarpus.
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Famous quotes containing the word palm:
“How did you get in the Navy? How did you get on our side? Ah, you ignorant, arrogant, ambitiouskeeping sixty two men in prison cause you got a palm tree for the work they did. I dont know which I hate worse, you or that malignant growth that stands outside your door. How did you ever get command of a ship? I realize in wartime they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel. But whered they ever scrape you up?”
—Frank S. Nugent (19081965)
“When John Henry was a little fellow,
You could hold him in the palm of your hand,
He said to his pa, When I grow up
Im gonna be a steel-driving man.
Gonna be a steel-driving man.”
—Unknown. John Henry (l. 15)
“The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something tricklike about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)