Coats Quotes - Page 4

• The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.

  Peter Maurin

  Poor, Closets

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• It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Every Man, Shabby

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.112

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• I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

  Diana Ross

  Real, Animal, Deep Thought

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

  James F. Cooper

  Christian, Suffering, Meals

  "The American Democrat: The Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 189, April 1, 2010.

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Elderly, Hands

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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• I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

  Anna Quindlen

  Husband, Silly, President

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• I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Healing, Doctors, Ideas

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• Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clothes, Flesh, Life Is

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.211, Princeton University Press

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• One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old engineer, as he sketched a triangle on the flags of our yard, and taught me how to measure it, is very vivid. The drab knee-breeches and grey worsted stockings, the deep waistcoat, with its pockets well furnished with snuff-of which ample quantities continually disappeared within the finely chiselled nostril-and the dark coat with its rounded outline and somewhat quakerish cut, are all clearly present to my memory.

  William Crawford Williamson

  Memories, Father, Science

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• I came in the door, I said it before
  I never let the mic magnetize me no more.
  But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme,
  I can't hold it back...I'm looking for the line.
  Taking off my coat, clearing my throat,
  My rhyme will be kicking until I hit my last note.

  Rakim

  Rap, Fighting, Doors

  "Song: Eric B. Is President (Album:Paid in Full)". 1987.

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• I had pecs for about two days. Everyone would hate me. Just look at me walking around with my little peacoat on. My little customized pea coat.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Hate, Two

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• Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.

  Doris Day

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Sin

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• I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

  Rumer Willis

  Tails, Feels, Wanted

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Ideas, Guy, Towels

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• There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Health, Sacrifice, Things In Life

  The Caxtons Pt XI, Ch. VII

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• Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

  William Gurnall

  Heaven, Fool, Ashamed

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.14

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• Don't sugar-coat results. Don't make yourself look good when your strategy fails. Don't make others look good if their strategy failed.

  Theodor Billroth

  Looks, Sugar, Failing

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• Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Life And Love, Up Early

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.290

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• One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you. Don’t hold it up and say it’s longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Regret, Spring

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #64: Tiny beautiful things". therumpus.net. February 10, 2011.

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• Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Retirement, Wall, Glasses

  Jimmy Breslin (1969). “The gang that couldn't shoot straight”, Viking Adult

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• Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. . . . We might as well require a man to wear the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain forever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Boys, Men, Hands

  Letter to Samuel Kercheval, 12 July 1816

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• All I see is sissies in magazines smiling...
  Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent?
  Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass whoopin'?
  And getting your shoes, coat and your hat tooken?

  Eminem

  Rap, Shoes, Hip Hop

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• Niggas out here buyin' hoes bags n' shoes,
  But couldn't buy their kid a new coat for school?
  Damn.

  Troy Ave

  Rap, School, Kids

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• Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout coat or a set of tires. Each new kitten becomes its own cat, and none is repeated. I am four cats old, measuring out my life in friends that have succeeded but not replaced one another.

  Irving Townsend

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way.

  Champfleury

  Lying, Cat, Hair

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