Rags Quotes

171 Rags quotes by 138 unique authors

It ain't what you're driving or the clothes that you wear, material possessions won't matter up there. And someday in heaven, when the angels all… — Garth Brooks
Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and… — John Galt
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
My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag. — Miranda Leek
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
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. — Thomas Hood
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
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
The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have… — Charles Spurgeon
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. — John Donne
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
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
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
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. — Herman Melville
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
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
When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a… — Nikos Kazantzakis
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill. — Leonard Cohen
Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be… — John Donne
First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags… — Jean Genet
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad,… — Douglas Coupland
Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But… — Yann Martel

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