Famous quotes containing the words hold, wrist and/or lock:
“We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“you show her the two hands
that grip each other fiercely,
one being mine, one being yours.
Torn right off at the wrist bone
when you started in your
impossible going, gone.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Don’t lock me in wedlock, I want
marriage, an
encounter....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)