Handed Quotes

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
R. A. Salvatore

Life, School, Through

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
Bjorn Borg

Playing, Both, Started

Toots said to me, 'I gotta hand it to him, thought, when he got into the big money, he came by and handed me the cash, saying, 'Here's what I'm sure I owe you.'
Audrey Meadows

Money, Saying, Him

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
Hans Frank

American, Army, Share

I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.
Louise Mensch

Amazing, Help, Hard

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
Asa Gray

Knowledge, May, Down

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.
Rooney Mara

Family, Everything, Everyone

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.
Fanny Kemble

Prove, Thousands, Slaves

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
Ruth Benedict

Life, History, Down

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.
Alison Lohman

Done, Perfect, Script

The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.
Klaus Fuchs

Time, Last, March

I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself.
Holly Valance

Money, Hard, Done

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.
Dom DeLuise

Great, Keep, Once

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.
Evelyn Ashford

Everything, Pride, Earn

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
Judith Guest

Successful, Seems, Deal

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Change, Down, Die

The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.
Ruth Buzzi

Love, Great, Again

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.
Martin Chemnitz

Faith, God, True

Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.
Majel Barrett

Here, Three, House

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.
Paulina Porizkova

Beauty, Work, Patience

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.
Whitey Herzog

Three, Left, Kinds

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Change, Mistakes, Friends

As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
Navid Negahban

Work, Sometimes, Wait

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.
Rumer Willis

Path, Same, Else

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'
Grace Hopper

Said, Officer, Passport

I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
Zoe Wanamaker

Love, Hate, Idea

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.
Richard Armitage

Pretty, Poor, Face

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.
Ty Pennington

House, Tree, Building

This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears.
John Culberson

Time, Country, Known

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.
Tom Chapin

Made, Guitar, Loved

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