Garment Quotes

158 quotes by 137 authors

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. — Ambrose Bierce
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
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. — Thomas Carlyle
Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride… — Anthony of Padua
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission… — Louise Erdrich
Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only… — Giorgio Armani
The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens
We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of… — Ellsworth Huntington
There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before… — Charles Spurgeon
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many… — Khalil Gibran
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. — Saint John Chrysostom
Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of… — John Joseph Griffin
What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge… — Agnes Mary Clerke
I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect. — Ann Demeulemeester
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way… — Omar Khayyam
Each morning at Holy Mass, the Bread of Life will help the body as well as the soul, if we have faith. If we but… — Edel Quinn
Nature is the living, visible garment of God. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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