Bones Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe.

— Grace Kelly

When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles…

— James Laver

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But the civilized…

— Henry David Thoreau

Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers,…

— Hilary Mantel

For better or worse, we are an accumulation of everything that ever happened to us, and I think that we have to wear that.

— Jelly Roll

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

— Julie Harris

“Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be,…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Sometimes in life we need to go to the closet and grab our skeletons, pile up all those that we have outgrown or those…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

I wonder why we get scrutinised all the time for what we wear?

— Perrie Edwards

There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking…

— Edmund White

What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks…

— Charlie LeDuff