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Quotes About Beautification

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
~ Rachael Ray
she barely moved and was, of course, concerned only with her own beautification and cleanliness. She dozed or was, at any rate, lying down, eyes closed, on her front, on her back, on one side, on the other, covered in sunscreen, her gleaming arms and legs always fully extended so that no part of her would remain untanned, no fold in her skin, even her armpits, even her groin (nor, it goes without saying, her buttocks)
~ Javier Marías
The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.'
~ Richard Rogers
When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.
~ Amit Ray
Just trusting the soul cannot lead you to higher consciousness. You have to pay attention for the beautification of your heart.
~ Amit Ray
Bottom line - cosmetics are used to accentuate an existing sex difference in facial contrast. This does not mean that women engage in this beautification practice with knowledge of this sexual dimorphism.
~ Gad Saad
Trees constitute the environmental quality committee—running air and water purification service 24-7. They're on every task force, from the historical society picnic to the highway department, school board, and library. When it comes to civic beautification, they alone create the crimson fall with little recognition.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Trees constitute the environmental quality committee--running air and water purification service 24-7. They're on every task force, from the historical society picnic, to the highway department, school board and library. When it comes to civic beautification, they alone create the crimson fall with little recognition.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night-riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project, burning billboards along the highway—U.S. 66
~ Edward Abbey
Icilma always noted that their poverty never ran so deep as to prevent them from beautifying their surroundings:
~ Marie-Elena John
Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.
~ Thomas Menino
I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
~ Ina Garten
As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.
~ Kato Kiyomasa
The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Back then, eating was also a means of beautification, since the more aloo tikki and murukku you consumed, the more likely you'd reach a voluptuousness akin to an American size ten or twelve, required for looking good in a sari.
~ Padma Lakshmi
I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
~ James Polshek