quotes about Garments
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My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
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I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.
-- Anne EllisSource : Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.12, U of Nebraska Press
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Silence is the garment of light.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
-- Barbara TuchmanSource : Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.399, Random House
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Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
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Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.
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She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
-- George R. R. Martin -
We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny,
-- Hill HarperSource : Hill Harper (2009). “The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships”, p.9, Penguin
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.
-- Jack Vance -
Borrowed garments never keep one warm.
-- James Russell Lowell -
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To think we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.
-- Jane Wagner -
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
-- Johann Georg Hamann -
A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.
-- Matthew Henry -
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Whenever I sign a garment with my name, I consider myself as the creator of the masterpiece.
-- Paul Poiret -
Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
-- Rumi -
My soul Is Naked. It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.
-- Rumi -
A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence.
-- Rumi -
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If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole
-- Sam CookeSource : Song: Touch the Hem of His Garment, 2003
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Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.
-- Umar -
After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.
-- W. A. Criswell -
My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.
-- W. S. Merwin -
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I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.
-- Erin O'ConnorSource : "Rags to riches: Erin O'Connor's fairtrade fashion". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2010.
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You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.
-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet -
Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.
-- Agnes Mary ClerkeSource : Agnes Mary Clerke (2010). “A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century”, p.453, Cambridge University Press
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You've been complaining, you've been depressed, you've been despondent. But take off those garments of heaviness and put back on your garments of praise. I didn't come when you thought I was going to come, but I'm going to be right on time.
-- Paula WhiteSource : Source: culteducation.com
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