Rags Quotes - Page 7

• There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.

  Denise Levertov

  Girl, Song, Moon

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.43, New Directions Publishing

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• If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't..." Vollrath bowed. "I will subject myself to your temper." You'll have no choice.

  Frank Beddor

  Choices, Soldier, Way

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• Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stars, Eagles, Complaining

  Shel Silverstein, “Somebody Has To”

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• Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wall, Fall, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, Tryambak Sunand Joshi, David E. Schultz (2003). “A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce”, p.243, Ohio State University Press

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• Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Country, Love Is, Emotional

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Children, Race

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• He (Pres. Bush) rightly decided that it was far better to return all Haitians than to encourage, deliberately or not, tens of thousands of people to take to the open ocean in unseaworthy, overcrowded boats.... When the Haitians sense the door has been cracked open, they will once again prepare their rag-tag armada and set sail for the land of plenty - America.

  Robert Byrd

  Ocean, Doors, Land

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• I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone.

  Tom Brady

  Athletic, Gears, Suits

  "#mancrushmonday: Tom Brady". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 23, 2016.

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• When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.

  Jonathan Swift

  Cutting, Men, Clothes

  Jonathan Swift (1812). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.73

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• Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe.

  Zeina

  Believe, Ocean, Sea

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• Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Parent, Roles, Stories

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.

  Marin Ireland

  Stars, Ideas, America

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• To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Political, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.91, Xist Publishing

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• If God was willing to wrap himself in rags and drink from a mother's breast, then all questions about his love for us are off the table.

  Max Lucado

  Mother, Tables, His Love

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."

  Robert Hass

  Heart, Talking, Ladders

  "Robert Hass" by Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Shining, Gentleman, Style

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.10

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• We are the rags to riches story okay the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally okay, God's gonna take "Duck Dynasty" where he wants it to go okay and to the people that he wants it to go to.

  Si Robertson

  Humble, Ducks, People

  "Uncle Si Compares Sacrifice of U.S. Troops to that of Jesus Christ". Interview with Jennifer Wishon, blogs.cbn.com. September 4, 2013.

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• The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.
  Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
  Red footprints wrote on the snow...

  Carl Sandburg

  War, Wind, Feet

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
  And disgustingly upside down.
  Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
  And grinning in their sleep.
  Bats!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sleep, Bats, Upside Down

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.51, Courier Dover Publications

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• Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Girl, Would Be, Looks

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  Jack Herer

  Quality, Paper, Dry

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• The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Shoes, Glasses

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• Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled

  Neil Peart

  Pride, Citizens, World

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• The winter is made and you have to bear it,
  The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind,
  For all the thoughts of summer that go with it
  In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.211, Vintage

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• Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

  John Milton

  Arms, Noise, Wheels

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.439

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