Quotes of Leather - somelinesforyou

“ They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. ”

- Bible

“ I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know? ”

- Leonardo DiCaprio

“ Thou wear a lion's hide! Doff it for shame,And hang a calfskin on those recreant limbs. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. ”

- Anonymous

“ I consider myself a leatherbear. Of course, now I'm 62 years old, so I'm a polar leatherbear. I'm part of both the leather and bear communities. ”

- Troy Perry

“ I still have a leather jacket my brother wore in the '60s. It doesn't fit me, but I figure maybe it'll fit my daughter. ”

- Andy Garcia

“ I love leather and it's great to be a bad girl at times. But there is a time and place for everything. When I'm with Grandma it's flowers, and when I'm out on the town scoping guys, you know. ”

- Eliza Dushku

“ In poor plight, weary and travel-soiled, glad at heart, though possessing nothing but a shirt, leather trousers and an old hat, having lost my jacket, neck-kerchief and worn out my shoes. ”

- David Douglas

“ On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last! ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather. ”

- Donald Grey Barnhouse

“ The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being. ”

- Bette Davis

“ Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. ”

- Emo Phillips

“ The best quality tea must have creases like the leather boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. ”

- Yu Lu

“ Propaganda is always rather nauseating. But before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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