Skin Quotes

2392 Skin quotes by 1621 unique authors

People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you. — Janet Jackson
Americanism is not a matter of skin or color. — Daniel Inouye
A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as… — Stephen Greenblatt
My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If… — Robin Morgan
"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret… — Janet Morris
Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by… — Shirley Chisholm
Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through. — Edward Abbey
Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide, — Eleanor Roosevelt
I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok. — Lorde
Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs. — Tim Howard
Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it… — Homer
During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on… — Malcolm X
Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to… — Clarence Thomas
When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the… — Clarence Thomas
Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too. — Candice Swanepoel
I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic. — Gisele Bundchen
You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning. — Karlie Kloss
Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble. — Jonathan Lethem
By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know.… — Darin Strauss
I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin… — Ingrid Newkirk
I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue. — Matthew Barney
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. — Nelson Mandela
I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they've been traveling… — Rand Paul
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease… — Bill Bryson

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