Handsel Quotes & Sayings

Childhood is never troubled with foresight. — Fanny Burney

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett

For years, the church has emphasized evangelism, teaching, fellowship, missions, and service to society to the neglect of the very source of its power
worship. — Robert E. Webber

Music is a big gift opportunity.We have to have our best offers disposed to capitalize on that. — Tom Corson

The planet, saved for another day, stokes up
its slow-burning gases and toxic dust, gold rift and scarlet
gash that take our breath away; a world at its interminable
show of holy dying. And we go with it, the old
gatherer and hunter. To its gaudy-day, though the contribution
is small, adding our handsel of warm clay. — David Malouf

From a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago, when I had been dusting the portraits in the library. In fact, as I recall, I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby — Anonymous

Love is the force that leaves you colorless — Ovid

I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love
I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me. — Sarah Fielding

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference. — Aaron Huey

Death is coming for me as surely as the Chudley Cannons will finish bottom of this year's league. — J.K. Rowling

Hope in a genuine sense, in any sense worth talking about, is irrevocably tied to failure, and to the criticism of what has and continues to fail us. I always get a little depressed when people think of my poems as simply dark. All of the negativity is really just a way of trying to find something that could honestly be called positive. — Jeffrey Schultz

Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith. — Amos Elon