Garment Quotes

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. (Georg Büchner)
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The body is a sacred garment: it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honour, and with joy and with fear as well. But always, though, with blessing. View quote
Martha Graham
Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
"Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black.""Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment."And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment. View quote
Stephen Crane
People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds. View quote
Anthony de Mello
The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces. View quote
Thomas Friedman
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe. View quote
Jack Vance
A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. View quote
David Dixon Porter
It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run. (Mary Antin)
The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance. View quote
Walther von der Vogelweide
The body is a sacred garment. View quote
Martha Graham
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn. View quote
Victor Hugo
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. View quote
Barbara Tuchman
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. View quote
W.S. Merwin
Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window. View quote
Tariq Ramadan
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. View quote
Al Lewis
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life. (George Eastman)
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
In our own time, every earthenware vessel or piece of jewelry, every utensil or garment, has to be designed on paper before it is made. Primitive peoples, however, create their works with the material itself in the artist's hand, held in his fingers. They aspire to express delight in form and the love of creating it. Absolute originality, the intense and often grotesque expression of power and life in very simple forms – that may be why we like these works of native art. View quote
Emil Nolde
In use of the broad powers with which I have been invested, I have found it proper to declare that 1. Priests of any cult who, abusing their ministry, excite hate or disrespect for our laws, our government, or its rights, will be punished by three years' imprisonment or deportation. 2. Because of the present crisis all cathedral chapters are suppressed, except for that of Guadalajara because of its patriotic behavior. 3. Priests of all cults are forbidden from wearing their vestments or any other distinguishing garment outside of the churches... All violators will be punished with fines of ten to one hundred pesos or imprisonment from fifteen to sixty days. View quote
Benito Juárez