Aprons Quote by Margaret Deland

Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.

— Diane Ackerman

“The whole world's safety depends on the words of two men who are enemies.”

— Margarita Engle

They sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons. -Genesis iii. 7.

— Bible

Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks…

— Robertson Davies

The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by…

— Jane Swisshelm

Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.

— William Shakespeare

I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to…

— Ann Hood

When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron…

— Raymond Chandler

Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point…

— Bert Greene

Nine out of ten English chefs have their names on their chests. Who do they think they are? They're dreamers. They're jokes. Just ask…

— Marco Pierre White

...Ivy’s COOK THE STEAK, DON’T STAKE THE COOK apron...

— Kim Harrison

The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the…

— Malcolm Gladwell