Quotes of Wool - somelinesforyou

“ For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. ”

- Rumer Godden

“ The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold. ”

- Richard Hovey

“ Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account? ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ The cat is a dilettante in fur. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ She hath more hair than wit, and more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ”

- Bible

“ It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. ”

- Unknown

“ Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. ”

- Bible

“ The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man. ”

- Hilaire Belloc

“ Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest. ”

- Harry F. Banks

“ Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool as been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? ”

- St. Jerome

“ When the bold branches Bid farewell to rainbow leaves - Welcome wool sweaters. ”

- B. Cybrill

“ The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools. ”

- Henry Beston

“ I have never been a dove because I'm some kind of woolly-eyed liberal. I have been a dove from the very early period, because I recognized that the Palestinians weren't going to go away, and they weren't going to remain passive. And all of these predictions were correct… ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ It's the tension between the marks on a flat surface, and then the image built, that interested me. And I was always a dyed-in-the-wool formalist anyway. I think process sets you free, because you know you don't have good days or bad days. You just show up… ”

- Chuck Close

“ I'm a died-in-the-wool Canadian liberal so there's certain aspects of my character that would have like to have seen a Democratic victory in this nation here, but now that the President has bee re-elected I think its incumbent upon us to all stop moping and give him the 4 years to finish off this conflict. ”

- Dan Aykroyd

“ We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite… ”

- Frances Wright

“ Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to any of these churches we talking bout he'd have to have it conked before anybody paid him any attention. The last thing niggers want to think about their God is that his hair kinky. ”

- Alice Walker
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