Top 294 Cloth Quotes & Sayings

I particularly love the silk in Jakarta, the shoes in Tokyo and the amazing cloth from Thailand and Malaysia.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon. I was maybe 8 or 9.

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. Work is love made visible

Wisdom isn't an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn't an answer. It's a question.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

You weave the threads and there is the cloth. If the threads are removed, there is no longer cloth. When there are Godly thoughts, there is peace of mind.

Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.

Society is founded upon Cloth.

Even the duster in my house has to be beautiful; no old piece of cloth will ever be used in its place.

I wanna do some more goofy comedy stuff; I really enjoyed doing 'A Touch of Cloth.'

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used to make us quits that we used for blankets. She couldn't afford to go to the store and buy a blanket -- so she'd take scraps of cloth and sew them together. there'd be different colors and different patterns and different types of cloth -- but they all went together to make that big quilt to keep us warm.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brothers.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

Grey cloth coaxes the lime trees of friends shadowing berries dropped by the grateful earth.

They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?

My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.

Love is a cloth which imagination embroiders.

It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.

She has never messed up a single take yet. Recently I was in a scene and there was a table covered with a cloth. When the director said cut, I saw a black nose and two paws inching out from under the cloth. She had hidden there without making a sound until we were done with the scene. She wanted to be nearer to me.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

Cold?" Ravus echoed. He took her arm and rubbed it between his hands, watching them as though they were betraying him. "Better?" He asked warily. His skin felt hot, even through the cloth of her shirt, his touch was both soothing and electric. She leaned into him without thinking. His thighs parted, rough black cloth scratching against her jeans as she moved between his long legs. His eyes half-lidded as he pushed himself off the desk, their bodies sliding together, his hands still holding hers. Then, suddenly, he froze.

Leo and I are kindred spirits - we're cut from the same cloth.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.

Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.

You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads.

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.

The trick of wearing mink is to look as though you were wearing a cloth coat. The trick of wearing a cloth coat is to look as though you are wearing mink.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon, i was maybe 8 or 9.

Harris Tweed as been around since before the Industrial Revolution when it was a handmade cloth from the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful.

You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth. You'd be surprised what the soil can do if you let it be your canvas.

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.

Most of us are cut from the same cloth. We all can be a hero if we choose. And it just isn't that hard.

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

I'm not a pastor. I'm not a man of the cloth, but I have my own calling.

Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies.

To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.

Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.