Sackcloth Quotes

14 quotes by 10 authors

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes. — Colman McCarthy
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth… — Herbert Hoover
It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and… — Alexandra Fuller
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to… — Kurt Schwitters
Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to… — Tom Brokaw
I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option. — Victoria Moran
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has… — Lafcadio Hearn
Artâ€”the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain… — Lawrence Durrell
I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if thereâ€™s some… — Kelley Armstrong
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor… — Bible
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And… — Bible
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the… — Bible
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplication, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. (Daniel 9:3) — Bible
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own… — Bible

Who Wrote These Sackcloth Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 14 Sackcloth Quotes as follows: