Top 140 Handed Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Handed Quotes from famous people such as Christopher Lee, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Aaron Paul, Ethel Merman, Grace Hopper, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.
Christopher Lee
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
I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn’t protect it or cherish it.
Aaron Paul
In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.
Ethel Merman
I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, ‘What are you?’
Grace Hopper
Of course, legends can call out whoever they want and do as they please, but they can’t just show up and get handed matches.
Dolph Ziggler
I’ve always said people say on a dramatic show, ‘I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.’ In comedy, the best thing you can say is, ‘I think it’s funny.’
Bob Newhart
I’ve had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn’t been handed to me and it hasn’t been easy.
Ashley Tisdale
My family home was a rented house in the East End of London. My parents could have bought it at one point, but they preferred to spend their money on holidays and theatre tickets. It was strange to see it handed on to someone else when my father passed away.
Matthew Bourne
My goals for the next part of my life: Whatever I’m handed, I’m gonna make the most of it. If it’s good for me, I’m gonna take it.
Danielle Bregoli
I think unadulterated products and smaller portion sizes mean consumption of less food overall. Portion is everything. The first time I bought a scoop of ice cream in Paris, they weighed the ice cream on a scale before putting it on the cone. It was so small, it fell into the cone as she handed it to me.
Alex Guarnaschelli
There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother’s strawberry pie – she is gone on now – I feel her right with me.
Kimberly Schlapman
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
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
I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score of ‘Notebook.’
Gopi Sundar
Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.
Angelina Jolie
This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don’t have the experience of being listened to by their parents.
Julian Treasure
It feels comfortable to me being on the left side, knowing that I’m left handed, being more dominant on that side.
Shaquill Griffin
I like to write my own songs rather than merely singing what has been handed over to you.
Shibani Dandekar
Starting off, I was pretty arrogant. They handed an 18-year-old the keys to a D1 FBS-contending university. I blew up a little bit, said some things I didn’t mean, and that follows you. You get one chance to make a first impression. I made the wrong one.
Josh Rosen
I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is ‘hard’ is wrong, so she handed me ‘Hamlet’ when I was in kindergarten to see what would happen. What happened was I did a book report on ‘Hamlet’ and caused quite a lot of trouble!
Seanan McGuire
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
When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.
Andrew Rosenthal
In 1600, when Shakespeare’s audience at the Globe heard ‘Hamlet’ for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.
Neil MacGregor
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.
Sebastian Coe
We’ve got to help our community out. We’ve got to help Baltimore out, because it’s a lot of things that have been handed down in our society that we’re dealing with.
Ed Reed
I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to play it. They handed me their card, which said, ‘Messiah Productions.’ All this religious scripture was written on the back. The last thing I wanted was to join any kind of Christian band.
David Thibodeau
Poyha is a venison dish handed down from the Cherokee tribe. You can think of it as a meatloaf, which it is, or as a skillet of cornbread that some venison sneaked into, which it also is. Either way, it’s a simple and satisfying meal.
Jonathan Miles
I always have that in the back of my head – the idea that I’ve been spoon-fed because of where I’m from. I think that’s one of the main things that drives me to work harder to show that, in reality, I haven’t been handed anything.
Baker Mayfield
When I became an actor, it was disappointing to show up on set and be handed a coffee. You know. I’d pick up cables and get told off.
David Hewlett
When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There’s only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
Jean Giraudoux
I got handed all of these amazing opportunities, especi

I got handed all of these amazing opportunities, especially travel opportunities.
Selah Louise Marley
No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media.
Cyril Ramaphosa
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
Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play ‘Girl Talk’ to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.
Carrie Preston
‘Whale Talk’ is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn’t draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.
Chris Crutcher
I never played Freddy as real. In the true bible of Wes Craven’s outline for the films, Freddy only manifests himself in dreams. And a lot goes into a dream, not the least of which is imagination. So Freddy is secondhand information. Freddy is an urban legend that’s been handed down to these teenagers over the years.
Robert Englund
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
I was a bookworm who aced every test – until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.
Caroline Leavitt
Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.
Rick Larsen
I’ve always been labeled… people think things are handed to me.
Glenn Gronkowski
Usually, an author writes a manuscript that is handed in to the editor. The editor will then work with an art director to find just the right illustrator for the job, and off they go. Many times, the illustrator and author never meet.
Tony DiTerlizzi
I’ve never gone against any manager, nor have I talked badly about any coach, I’ve always thrown myself at any challenge handed to me and tried to understand and learn.
Carlos Vela
I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.
Frank Deford
Greeks are notorious for their potions. I wouldn’t say I’ve used Windex, but there are so many tricks that have been handed down to me.
Elena Kampouris
Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.
Kim Jong-un
Once, when I was about eight, my mum handed me a sandwich, and I remarked: ‘What are those weird things on your hands?’ I was referring to the visible pores, which were such a contrast to my own alabaster-smooth skin. My mum looked mortified, while my grandma laughed and said: ‘They’re nothing – look at mine!’
Kate Garraway
Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He’s just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces – and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.
Arthur L. Herman
One of my clearest, happiest memories is of myself at fourteen, sitting up in bed, being handed a large glass of warm buttermilk by my mother because I had a sore throat, and she saying how envious she was that I was reading ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ for the first time.
David Shields