Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Raisa felt relieved, yet oddly disappointed. She was the blooded princess heir, yet in servants' clothes she was apparently unrecognizable. In the… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet,… — Charles Loring Brace Copy Share Image
Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy -… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies… — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death,… — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until… — Homer Copy Share Image
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast. It seemed to be coming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy. — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
