Cloth Quotes

171 quotes by 162 authors

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way. — John le Carre
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it… — John Gregory Brown
America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes,… — Jesse Jackson
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is… — Margaret Mead
Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth. — Yukio Mishima
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but… — Laozi
In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit,… — Lucy Irvine
Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie." — Paulo Coelho
The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person… — Richard Bach
I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family. — Foxy Brown
Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland… — John Derbyshire
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the… — William Blake
I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is… — Mike Tyson
Society is founded upon Cloth; — Thomas Carlyle
All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is… — Osama bin Laden
And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get… — Herodotus
The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove… — Aneurin Bevan
Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth. — Martin Luther
Shape your coat according to your cloth. — Thomas Nashe
On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the fire was a… — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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