Quotes About Uniform

Tanta juventud gozándose en sí misma, abrazados sobre la cama y yo con mi uniforme de niña de las monjas, moviéndome sobre tu cuerpo enfundado en un pantalón blanco, llenándonos de besos cuando todo estaba comenzando.

in contrast to a garment of praise, guilt is the uniform. It's a straitjacket called fatalism.

that since both the British policeman and the Nazi storm trooper wore a uniform, the British policeman was a brute. It is one of the chief characteristics of modern rhetoric, designed not so much to find the truth as (in the words of former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam) to 'maintain your rage.

She laughed, and I noted how different she was from the first night I'd met her. It was almost as though her uniform had the ability to transform her personality. But then I realized that the same was true about me. In a lab coat or scrubs, I was one person; dressed like a yachtsman, I was someone different. (p. 97, Trevor Benson)

and at the table next to her was a little boy in a soccer uniform sitting with his mother who told him, The plural of elf is elves. A wave of happiness came over me. It felt giddy to be part of it all. To be drinking a cup of coffee like a normal person. I wanted to shout out: The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!

The woman standing there is in a crisp admiral's uniform. She's dark-skinned, with cold brown eyes to match.

Perhaps his life might have veered elsewhere if the US government had opened the country to colored advancement like they opened the army. But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door. The GI Bill fixed things pretty good for the white boys he served with, but the uniform meant different things depending who wore it. What was the point of a no-interest loan when a white bank won't let you step inside?

He had a narrow raccoon face that drew Elwood's attention to his tiny nose and dark circles under his eyes and thick bristly eyebrows. Spencer was fastidious with his dark blue Nickel uniform; every crease in his clothes looked sharp enough to cut, as if he were a living blade.

the buttons of his dark blue uniform allude to an ongoing border dispute with his soft belly.

Boys in uniform, carrying guns, marched with their eyes ahead of them, marched, their arms stiff, and on their faces an expression like the letters of a legend written round the base of a statue praising duty, gratitude, fidelity, love of England.

Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Running up out of the surf on to the beach at St. Tropez I thought I was shot. I looked down and saw red all over my uniform. I hollered for the medic and Lieutenant Kavota from Hazelton, Pennsylvania, came running over to me and shouted, "You son of a bitch, that's wine. You ain't shot. Get up and get going. They shot your canteen.

Colonel Bulder, in full military uniform, on horseback, galloping first to one place and then to another, and backing his horse among the people, and prancing, and curvetting, and shouting in a most alarming manner, and making himself very hoarse in the voice, and very red in the face, without any assignable cause or reason whatever.

I've no interest on initiating a fashion trend on Coruscant or anywhere else. I simply want a uniform that fits - Tarkin

I look like prep school Barbie, Nudge complained, as she entered the kitchen. She caught sight of me in my uniform and looked mollified. Actually, you like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend.

on the carpet stood a new pair of Dr. Martens boots. Those, he guessed, would be his uniform for the duration of his employment with The Quarry Company.

I'd managed to get ahold of my first coffee of the morning and had just declined a third call from some annoyingly persistent New York Times reporter when I looked up and saw Chief of Detectives Neil Fabretti come through the command post door. I almost didn't recognize him in his stately white-collar uniform.

Police officers know that each time they put on their uniform, they are taking on risks to protect others.

It is always an honor to put on a uniform.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

I was just lucky to have a uniform.

A police uniform is just a piece of clothing sewn by the same tailors who sew your clothes.