Garments Quotes

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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
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving… — John Henry Newman
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.
Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so… — William Gurnall
How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat… — Saint John Chrysostom
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. — Edward Blishen
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life. — William Osler
First examine what is constantly there in your mind, what is being repeated again and again. You don't have many thoughts. If you examine minutely… — Rajneesh
Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal. — William Shakespeare
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

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