Quotes and Sayings About Hem
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
-- Alexander Smith -
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking.
-- Emily Henderson -
Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech, I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth, To bellow with the damn'd!
-- Joanna Baillie -
[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.
-- Mae West -
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
-- Mother Teresa -
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
-- Octavia Butler -
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
-- Otto von Bismarck -
If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole
-- Sam Cooke -
Then Octavia drops to her knees, rubs the hem of a skirt against her cheek, and burst into tears. "It's been so long," she gasps, "since I've seen anything pretty.
-- Suzanne Collins -
I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.
-- Tim Gunn -
Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?
-- Trudi Canavan -
We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.
-- Vince McMahon -
After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.
-- W. A. Criswell -
The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!
-- William Cowper -
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
-- Madeleine L'Engle
