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Quotes About Folds

My grandfather was in the military, and I've been part of the Folds of Honor Foundation since 2009, so having the opportunity to wear Puma's Volition America collection is the perfect fit for me.
~ Gary Woodland
I am convinced that there is no host in the world today who is both knowledgeable about fine things and more sovereign in power, whom we shall adorn with the glorious folds of song.
~ Pindar
So much it availed, you coming to him at night; his destiny, tall in its cloak, stepped back behind the cupboard, and his unquiet future, easily shifting, fitted itself into the folds of the curtain.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
She doesn't know geometry. Just enough to pilot a ship in and out of the folds." "Only that much?" I should have stuck to advanced finger-painting and never let Dad lure me into trying for an education. There isn't any end—the more you learn, the more you need to learn.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Savior, like a shepherd lead us, much we need Thy tender care; In Thy pleasant pastures feed us, for our use Thy folds prepare. Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Thou hast bought us, Thine we are. Blessèd Jesus, blessèd Jesus! Thou hast bought us, Thine we are.
~ Robert J. Morgan
The draperies that clothe figures must show that they are inhabited by these figures, enveloping them neatly to show the posture and motion of such figures, and avoiding the confusion of many folds, especially over the prominent parts, so that these may be evident
~ Leonardo da Vinci
and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.
~ Anais Nin
the ghosts of glaciers drift among those folds and folds of fir
~ Elizabeth Bishop
luxuriant black cascade, and against the graceful folds of her ivory
~ Sidney Sheldon
The sheet was warm and moving. Vere held it in a continuation of the nightmare, until he saw a small red face amidst the folds. The tiny mouth was open to let forth surprisingly strident shrieks.
~ Emma Drummond
Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
~ Gilles Deleuze
It isn't time that folds, it's space.
~ Kathryn Davis, Duplex
As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.
~ Arthur Symons
Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.
~ Haruki Murakami
I loved you with texture. You loved with a softness. Texture brought detail, softness brought folds. Folds brought creases and creases had secrets.
~ Dominic Riccitello
It isn't time that folds, it's space.
~ Kathryn Davis
We had to determine structures, because structures, the folds and shapes, are conserved over a longer evolutionary period than the nucleic acid sequences.
~ Walter Isaacson
There is the National flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If in a foreign land, the flag is companionship, and country itself, with all its endearments.
~ Charles Sumner
The State Police car was a standard black Prius Interceptor with that origami-looking bodywork that Leon called go-faster folds.
~ William Gibson
Am I not here who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and my protection? Am I not your source of joy? Are you not in the folds of my mantle, And in the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else that you need?
~ Unknown
Memory takes root only half in the folds of the brain: half's in the concrete streets we have lived along.
~ Unknown
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
~ Ansel Adams
Preaching was uniquely honored by God "in that it serveth to collect the church and to accomplish the number of the elect" and also "it driveth away the wolves from the folds of the Lord.
~ Joel R. Beeke
No voice comes from outer space, from the folds of dust and carpets of wind to tell us that this is the way it was meant to happen, that if only we knew how long the ruins would last we would never complain.
~ Mark Strand