Famous quotes containing the words thumb and/or touches:
“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller’s thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
““Who touches a hair of yon gray head
Dies like a dog! March on!” he said”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)