Quotes About Garment

t's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

I love the idea of a dress or a coatdress rather than a suit with a jacket.

There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Wear or wrap?

The mannequin is always in fashion."

These bad boys're what we call Runnie-undies. Keep you, um, nice and comfy." "Nice and comfy?" "Yeah, ya know. Your-" "Yeah, got it." Thomas took the underwear and other stuff.

even you, fellow creature, sister sitting across from me, dark with love, working like me to pick apart working with me to remake this trailing knitted thing, this cloth of darkness, this woman's garment, trying to save the skein

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

Personally, I'm a V-neck guy.

The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the miserable physique and the national defects of concave chests and bow legs. The lack of 'complexion' and of hair upon the face makes it nearly impossible to judge of the ages of men.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

Gloria regretted that she wasn't a knitter, she could be producing a useful garment while waiting for Graham to die.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

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

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.