Rag Quotes
67 quotes by 60 authors
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I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
— Nikki Haley
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Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty…
— Colum McCann
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My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.
— Miranda Leek
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You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look…
— Frosty Wooldridge
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As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think…
— Kathleen Hanna
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I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for…
— Ashton Kutcher
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The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the…
— Anne Lamott
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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning…
— Al Sharpton
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There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are.…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Is she become a rag doll? Are the wolves become children? It seems quite possible, there on the twilight fringes of dying. With some faint…
— Jane Lindskold
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I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card…
— Ivan Turgenev
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There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and…
— Anne Lamott
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Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction…
— Terry Pratchett
Who Wrote These Rag Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 67 Rag Quotes, led by these top contributors: