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For me, it's all about the Canadian tuxedo, and maybe a bolero. The province I grew up in in Alberta is pretty much the denim capital of Canada. The first premier of Alberta started Grand Western Garment, which Levi's bought later on. -- Mac DeMarco
My soul Is Naked. It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love. -- Rumi
Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. -- Ambrose Bierce
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing. -- Omar Khayyam
The body is a sacred garment. -- Martha Graham
My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker. -- Alan Sugar
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. -- Ambrose Bierce
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers. -- Herodotus
I noticed the people who drove the nicest cars were all in the garment business. -- Do Won Chang
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. -- Thomas Carlyle
Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying? -- Tom Bodett
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. -- Al Lewis
Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger. -- Tim Gunn
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
'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store. -- Nicole Richie
Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you're buying an expensive trench coat, and it's lined in something cheap, it doesn't feel as nice. -- Christian Siriano
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core. -- Dries van Noten
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. -- Jean Giraudoux
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. -- Akhenaton
In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. -- Florence Kelley
I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life. -- George Eastman
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. -- Edna Ferber
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? -- Michelangelo
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. -- Ellsworth Huntington
Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high. -- Suriya
When I write from the point of view of a child or a young person, I am trying to tell the truth as an adult voice sometimes cannot. We are so often wrapped in the garment of trying to reassure ourselves that we are not afraid. -- Michael Cadnum
What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite comfortable and charming in a too-narrow shoulder, a sleeve that's too short or too long, a pant that's too high or too low, hems that are trod on. -- Marc Jacobs
In my research, I learned that the way these twenties pieces are constructed, in one garment, can be very simple, and in others they can be very complicated. That's what made an elusive fit that we can't always get these days. Knowing this, I would like to share some of these secrets and use them in a collection. -- Mark Bridges
youth is a marvelous garment -- Iris Murdoch
Silence is the garment of light. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Love is the garment of knowledge. -- Kenneth Rexroth
Nature is the living, visible garment of God. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment. -- Gautama Buddha
Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it. -- William Shakespeare
Patience is a garment which has never worn out. -- Idries Shah
A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. -- David Dixon Porter
We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny, -- Hill Harper
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man -- Saint John Chrysostom
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. -- Saint John Chrysostom
One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets... -- Idries Shah
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse. -- Charles Spurgeon
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. -- Georg Buchner
We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment. -- Louise Erdrich
Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit. -- David McCord
Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. -- Barbara Tuchman
Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase? -- Steven Wright
I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business. -- Fran Lebowitz
After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment. -- W. A. Criswell
Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak. -- Rumi
If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole -- Sam Cooke
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing. -- Anne Carson
There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise. -- Martin Luther
Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes? -- John Heywood
Life does not hand refined golds to us but golds hidden under the garment of the earth -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment. -- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
Whenever I sign a garment with my name, I consider myself as the creator of the masterpiece. -- Paul Poiret
The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment. -- Aldous Huxley
Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over. -- Hilda Doolittle
Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest. -- Cleanth Brooks
Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance. -- James Allen
A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence. -- Rumi
May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness. -- Pope Alexander VI
The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags. -- Rita Mae Brown
A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers. -- William Shakespeare
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? -- Johann Georg Hamann
A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run. -- Mary Antin
Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights. -- Umar
People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds. -- Anthony de Mello
God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love. -- Oscar Romero
My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. -- W. S. Merwin
Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. -- Khalil Gibran
The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces. -- Thomas Friedman
Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition. -- Wayne Dyer
The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance. -- Walther von der Vogelweide
If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity? -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget! -- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. -- Charles Dickens
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. -- Ray Bradbury
I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect. -- Ann Demeulemeester
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
When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white. -- Heinrich Heine
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises. -- Maria Montessori
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop. -- Eva Jessye
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment. -- Joseph Joubert
Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment. -- Stephen Crane
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling. -- Bette Midler
Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God. -- Bartholomaus
Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul. -- Hilda Doolittle
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. -- Khalil Gibran
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. -- Jane Wagner
As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator. -- Luc de Clapiers
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. -- William Butler Yeats
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe. -- Jack Vance
A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation. -- Matthew Henry
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
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
Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise. -- F.B. Meyer
When designing a collection that is traditional, that has one specific sort of garment like a white dress, I think just being constantly attuned to trends really help. -- Austin Scarlett
When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. -- Yasmin Mogahed
When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment. -- John Dryden
If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Come, fill the Cup, in the fire of SpringYour Winter-garment of Repentance fling:The Bird of Time has but a little wayTo flutter--and the Bird is on the Wing" -- Omar Khayyam
The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. -- Bill Guggenheim
He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him. -- John Flavel
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. -- Amelia Barr
There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics. -- Elizabeth Hawes
We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. -- Winston Churchill
Feminism is not a patch; it is a whole new pattern which can only be realized by weaving a new garment, seamless from top to bottom and multicolored from the beginning. -- Sandra Marie Schneiders

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