Hem Quotes

60 quotes by 58 authors

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
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem… — Octavia Butler
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
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
O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the sunshine. The twigs… — William Carlos Williams
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin? — Pippa Middleton
Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May. — Alexander Smith
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it… — Mother Teresa
The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance if… — Margaret Prescott Montague
Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending… — J.R.R. Tolkien
And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and… — Geoffrey Chaucer
The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I… — Ambrose
In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to… — Hilary of Poitiers
Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking. — Emily Henderson
Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The… — Susan B. Anthony
All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In… — Samuel Johnson
The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote… — William Cowper
You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a… — Jennifer Garner
I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief. — Anne Sullivan Macy

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