Garments Quotes - Page 4

• Not simply the righteousness of our Saviour, not simply the beauty of His holiness or the graces of His character, are we to put on as a garment. The Lord Himself is our vesture. Every Christian is not only a Christ bearer, but a Christ wearer. We are so to enter into Him by communion, to be so endued with His presence, and imbued with His Spirit that men shall see Him when they behold us, as they see our garments when they look upon our bodies.

  Adoniram Judson Gordon

  Christian, Character, Men

  Adoniram Judson Gordon (1897). “Yet Speaking: A Collection of Addresses”

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• Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.

  Margery Allingham

  Years, Ridiculous, Charming

  Margery Allingham (1961). “Three Cases for Mr. Campion”

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• Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fun, Exercise, Fit

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.173, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.

  Issey Miyake

  Rain, Moving, Fall

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• God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Justice, Catholic

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• Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth!  I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him.  Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning.  But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes - ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.

  Jim Elliot

  Stars, Children, Eye

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• A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.

  Mary Antin

  Running, Past, Long

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.

  Mary Antin

  Running, Past, Two

  Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

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• As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

  Epictetus

  Men, Casting Off, Body

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• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war... Mostly the animals understand their roles, but man, by comparison, seems troubled by a message that, it is often said, he cannot quite remember or has gotten wrong... Bereft of instinct, he must search continually for meanings... Man was a reader before he became a writer, a reader of what Coleridge once called the mighty alphabet of the universe.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, War, Animal

  "The Unexpected Universe". Book by Loren Eiseley, www.wired.com. 1964.

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• It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Order, Doubt, Sake

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• Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

  Samuel Smiles

  Self Esteem, Men, Self Respect

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.362

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• You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

  Larry McMurtry

  Age, Littles, Quitting

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• The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book." There is surely something to that. But it wasn't just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn't the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Father, Book

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.230, Penguin UK

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• My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish you from head to toe. I wish to make love to you until you are too exhausted to do so much as stand without support. Until you call out my name in your dreams and reach for me in your sleep. Until you can think of no one and nothing beyond the touch of my hand, the caress of my lips.

  Victoria Alexander

  Dream, Rip, Sleep

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• In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Real, Destiny, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Would you like to assist me with my choice of underwear as well?” My sarcasm whistled right over his head. “I would be delighted. While I’d love to see you in a balconette bra, I’m afraid for this particular occasion I would have to go with a foam-lined seamless due to the tight fit of the garment across your breasts . . . Perhaps I could come over and review what you have available . . .

  Ilona Andrews

  Sarcasm, Choices, Foam

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• She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

  George R. R. Martin

  Despair, Ifs

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.507, Bantam

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• And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Fashion, Grief, Heart

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment.

  Stephen Crane

  Rocks, Wind, Long

  Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,' said Mother. 'What on earth did you think it was?' 'It looks like a badly skinned whale,' said Larry, peering at it closely.

  Gerald Durrell

  Mother, Thinking, Whales

  Gerald Durrell (2017). “My Family and Other Animals”, p.109, Penguin UK

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• There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing it as an ever-increasing roll of words like barbed wire, intricate, bewildering, uncomforting—set against the rich productions, the food, flowers, and knitted garments, of other women’s domesticity. It became harder to say that it was worth the trouble.

  Alice Munro

  Flower, Home, Eye

  Alice Munro (2002). “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories”, Vintage

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• Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if the garment was stitched of trapped souls from the Fields of Punishment, trying to get out. The ADHD part of me wondered, off-task, whether the rest of his clothes were made the same way. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?

  Rick Riordan

  Punishment, Eyebrows, Clothes

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• It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

  Khalil Gibran

  Hands, Tears, Skins

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Names, Empathy

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