Thumb/definition

Famous quotes containing the words thumb and/or definition:

“Your small hands, precisely equal to my own—
only the thumb is larger, longer—in these hands
I could trust the world, or in many hands like these,
handling power-tools or steering-wheel
or touching a human face ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“One definition of man is “an intelligence served by organs.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)