I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine... — Celia Rees 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
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism. — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. — George Farquhar 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
Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you want to live, go back to Christ. You are not Christians. Go back to Christ. Go back to him who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the… — Robert Reich 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
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
I got into playing the jazz. I played jazz for a good while. I did the popular stuff first. You got the… — Papa John Creach Copy Share Image
I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so… — Gautama Buddha 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
Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
Standing on the bridge, looking across at that empty city, everything in the compass of my gaze had been set there by… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't… — Douglas Coupland 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
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men,… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
