Medical research has shown that when an 8 week old human foetus is pricked in the palm of his hand by a needle, he opens his mouth and pulls his hand away. There is also an increase in heart rate as a result. This shows that an 8 week old foetus can feel pain
These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady
It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.
Lights are glowing in the palm trees.
Thanks to Allah, who gives the palm!
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist.
As far as we know, everyone’s right— Strigoi don’t want to hang out in Palm Springs. ” Eddie became about one percent less tense.
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence.
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one of the most impactful influences on American writers, even if they don't know it. That's largely because she makes economy seem so easy. You could read several of her stories into a friend's voicemail box before you were cut off (and you should). You could fit one of her stories in this column. Some you could write on your palm.
I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.
. . . that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.
Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who am I?
California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else.
She was aware of the movement of his lips as he pressed soundless words in her palm. He released her, and the look he gave her seemed to reveal the depths of his lustful, longing, bitter soul. "Good-bye, Miss Fielding," he said hoarsely.
Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.
I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little. 22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.
Sanford is a little redneck town north of Orlando. It's right off Lake Jessup. Lake Jessup is the most alligator infested lake in the United States and I live literally 510ths of a mile north of that lake right off the swamp down here. I've lived here since '94. When I left Nebraska my dad got a job at a private Christian school in West Palm Beach. People will say "You're not really a country boy. You're from Palm Beach, Florida. " Well, I moved to West Palm Beach, FL which is a far cry from Palm Beach, FL. There's a reason it's called West Palm Beach.
A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.
The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.
There is always a point in the party where I wouldn't say I have people in the palm of my hands, but when there is a point in the evening. . . if you have been to any great party, you know when the whole room becomes one.