Hem Quotes

• We love our fans, so there's nothing we wouldn't do for them, and we go directly to t hem.

  Vince McMahon

  Fans

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• Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Friends, Spring, Good Friend

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• Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Dust, Garments

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.162, New World Library

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• I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Kings, Stones, Break

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• Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
  The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Book, March, Canterbury Tales

  The Canterbury Tales "The General Prologue" l. 1 (ca. 1387)

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

  Otto von Bismarck

  Waiting, Political, Events

  "Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, (p.115), 1955.

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• There’s a vastness here and I believe that the people who are born here breathe that vastness into their soul. They dream big dreams and think big thoughts, because there is nothing to hem them in.

  Conrad Hilton

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

  Octavia Butler

  Wall, Fiction, Able

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• I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress.

  Idara Victor

  Art, Inspiration, Dresses

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• You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

  Jennifer Garner

  Fashion, Scotch, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Moving

  Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.26, Penguin

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• -and nobody’s getting laid!” I practically shouted. “You think I don’t know that?” He shifted his body beneath me, making me painfully aware of something. Two somethings, in fact, one of which was how far up my short skirt was. The other wasn’t my problem. I wriggled, to shimmy my hem down, but his expression perished the thought. When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t even bother trying.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Thinking, Expression

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• I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice.

  Sharon Creech

  Jumping, Nails, Would Be

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• Will’s eyes met Tessa’s as she came closer, almost tripping again over the torn hem of her gown. For a moment, they were in perfect understanding. Jem was what they could still look each other straight in the eye about. On the topic of Jem, they were both fierce and unyielding. Tessa saw Will’s hand tighten on Jem’s sleeve. “She’s here,” he said. Jem’s eyes opened slowly. Tessa fought to keep the look of shock from her face. His pupils were blown out, his irises a thin ring of silver around the black. “Ni shou shang le ma, quin ai de?” he whispered.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hands, Perfect

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• Still sitting, he reached out and pulled me toward him. We stayed there, looking at each other, his hand still wrapped in my shirt hem, my heart hammering so hard I was sure he could hear it. when I inched closer, not wanting to intrude, he tugged me in front of him and I stumbled, half falling onto his lap. I tried to scramble up, cheeks burning, but he pulled me down onto his knee, one army going around my waist, tentative, as if to say Is this okay? It was, even if my blood pounded in my ears so hard I couldn't think.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fall, Heart, Army

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• She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

  Jodi Picoult

  Forever, Littles, Tripping

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.721, Simon and Schuster

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• Then Octavia drops to her knees, rubs the hem of a skirt against her cheek, and burst into tears. "It's been so long," she gasps, "since I've seen anything pretty.

  Suzanne Collins

  Long, Tears, Knees

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1270, Scholastic Inc.

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• I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.

  Veronica Roth

  Loyalty, Believe, Eye

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, 2012.

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

  Philippa Gregory

  Little Sister, Littles, Mud

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.561, Simon and Schuster

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• The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield. A sharp breeze lifted the hems of skirts and rattled the leaves on the immature trees; a spiteful, chill wind that sought out your weakest places, the nape of your neck and your knees, and which denied you the comfort of dreaming, of retreating a little from reality.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Reality, Wind

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• You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when your days and your nights may be most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and weep over their responsibility as mothers, `Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.' And it will make your children whole as well.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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

  Anne Lamott

  Grace, Stitches, Might

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.48, Penguin

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• It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Imagination, World, Facts

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• Of all the old prejudices that cling to the hem of the woman's garments and persistently impede her progress, none holds faster than this. The idea that she owes service to a man instead of to herself, and that it is her highest duty to aid his development rather than her own, will be the last to die.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Ideas, Progress

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