#handed

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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.


Edie Falco


#anything #body #came #felt #handed

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


#backstage #believe #both #canadian #festival

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.


Eric Church


#handed #just #many #people #them

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


#demonstration #does #estate #gracious #handed

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.


Michael Winslow


#art #artists #blessing #break #curse

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.


Kelly Millar


#any #civilization #down #generation #handed

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.


Toni Morrison


#classes #everybody #everything #gets #granted

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?


Gale Norton


#environment #government #government regulation #heavy-handed #only

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.


Bono


#baby #blow #day #die #ethiopia

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.


Sharon Stone


#beginning #career #flashed #front #globe