Quotes About Hem

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

debate continues. In my hem or in my hand? I

The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left.

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

It could be that God has absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of its hem.

And now, a heap of roses beside the sea, white rugosa beside the foaming hem of shore: brave, waxen candles… And we talk as if death were a line to be crossed. Look at them, the white roses. Tell me where they end.

up the hem of her silk shell and scooped his

I'm gonna take your mother back to Lincoln," I says. "I'm gonna get her a new coffin, a nice one, and a nice angel headstone. I'll put her in the ground real good and all at my expense." I expect Billy to smile or say thank you or something but she is looking hard at the wrapped quilt, thinking. There's a part of the dress, just a little bit of the hem

What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite comfortable and charming in a too-narrow shoulder, a sleeve that's too short or too long, a pant that's too high or too low, hems that are trod on.

I wear dresses most of the time. If I wore a skirt or pants my panties would show because of all the people pulling at my hem wanting something from me.

Everna told Pharinet how Ellony would wander about Caradore at night, like some mad ghost, dragging the hem of her nightgown across the flagstones.

At least the hem of the skirt doesn't drag impractically on the floor. I can still run in it as I howl at the moon.

Skulls" said Lady Lamorna. "Definitely skulls. Rows and rows of dear little skulls, sewn all along the hem.

Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.

to dry the damp hem, and the firelight glowed from both my rings. A strong disposition to

Make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn all the way around the lower hem, with gold bells between them,

alternating the gold bells and pomegranates around the lower hem of the robe.

They also made bells of pure gold and attached them around the hem between the pomegranates,