Quotes About Uniforms

So Carbone had no closet full of clean and pressed uniforms. There were no serried ranks of undershirts, crisp and laundered, folded ready for use. There were no gleaming boots under his bed.

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way.

Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

I'm half French, and I was educated in England and since I was eighteen I've worn the uniforms of eight countries.

don't know why you Betans put on soldiers' uniforms. You're no better trained than children on a picnic. If your ranks denote anything but pay scale, it's not apparent to me.

Chivington and his Third Colorado Regiment wear uniforms and fight the Indians only as an excuse to stay out of the real war going on back East, so they don't want peace because they won't have an excuse to stay out of that war." "Evans

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Most men are not secure enough to love a woman who packs a gun, wears a badge, and can put people in jail. Unmarried policewomen tell me that the men with courage enough to ask for a date often prove to be weirdos with strange ideas, some of them relating to handcuffs and uniforms.

He and Werner eat their first meal in their starchy new uniforms at a long wooden table in the refectory. Some boys talk in whispers, some sit alone, some gulp food as if they have not eaten in days. Through three arched windows, dawn sends a sheaf of hallowed golden rays. Frederick flutters his fingers and asks, "Do you like birds?" "Sure." "Do you know about hooded crows?

And don't look at me like that. I don't need your damned pity. It's true that I've known men, too many of them, but one gets used to it. And you can't judge men by what they do when they take off their pants. For their really filthy tricks they dress up — they even put on uniforms, flags and decorations.

And you can't judge men by what they when they take off their pants. For their really filthy tricks they dress up--they even put on uniforms, flags and decorations.

On Law & Order and CSI, female cops look svelte and sexy in their uniforms. I look like the Michelin Man, only armed, and less graceful.

So who was doing the beating? The uniforms or those inside them? How was it that protests against police violence showed how violent police really were?

Ive been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.

What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

But no one on either side ever forgot that the law was white. Justice might be blind, but the law wasn't. Justice was aspirational, but the law was actual. The law was real. It had uniforms, and weapons. It smelt of sweat and tobacco. It drove a big car with a star on the door. White people had justice. Black folks had the law.

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself. That's just the way Evil is. All things considered, it's better to be on the side of Good, even if Evil occasionally has nicer uniforms.

Grafted onto street clothes and removed from the field of play, jerseys don't even flatter men in their physical prime. Witness any baseball player wearing a uniform top over dress shirt and slacks at a press conference podium.

Yet militarism was a more general phenomenon across Europe and throughout societies. In Britain small children wore sailor suits and on the Continent schoolchildren frequently wore little uniforms; secondary schools and universities had cadet corps;

Life was going past her, down a hot shady summer road, life with gray uniforms and jingling spurs and flowered organdie dresses and banjos playing.

They're all in the Toff's Rifles or the Mummersetshire Yeomanry.

Police and security guards play an important role in stopping crime, but there uniforms put them at a disadvantage in these terrorist-type attacks. Knowing that the officer is the only person with a gun makes things quite simple for attackers. They need only kill him first. It is the equivalent of wearing a neon sign saying "shoot me first.