Rags Quotes

The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'... Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag'... Now take your lady to the world's fair (...) And do the 'rag time dance.'

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it

It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.