Rags Quotes

171 Rags quotes by 138 unique authors

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school. — Annie Lennox
Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict. — John Milton
God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is… — Sue Monk Kidd
I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every… — Jennifer Lawrence
Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a… — Mark Twain
I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. — John Bunyan
Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may… — Swami Vivekananda
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food. — Waverley Root
No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is… — Ezra Pound
The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its… — John L. Lewis
Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Through your rags I see your vanity. — Socrates
Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath… — C.S. Lewis
[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that… — Ambrose Bierce
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
You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are… — Anne Lamott
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was… — Robert Reich
Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the… — Katherine Mansfield
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to… — Lord Chesterfield
It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time. — Dan Stevens
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections. — Criss Jami
Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king. — Garth Brooks
Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of. — Dolly Parton

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