I stood there, staring at my clothes. What does a mama wear to her son’s funeral? I looked over my wardrobe.There were outfits purchased for work, church, and casual weekends but nothing to wear to the burial of my seventeen-year-old son.
But then I sigh, with a piece of Scripture Tell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
This was one of those moments when I realized that my emotional baggage, once a few neatly packed pieces, was now like the Joads' truck, stacked high with old clothes, half a rocking chair, a mule, all barely secured with twine.
I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your gar...
I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am qui...
I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.
Snow is not a wolf in sheep's clothing - it is a tiger in lamb's clothing.
I am old enough to be married twice. I am old enough to be bedded without tenderness or consideration. I am old enough to face death in the confinement room and be told that my own mother--my own mother--has commanded them to save the child and not m...
Don't hang all your clothes on one hook.
Old truths, old laws, old friends, old books, and old wine are best.
The clothes most worn by people are the clothes least commented on by the press.
I like to wear beautiful clothes, but I don't have that many.
They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.
I have bought a lot of beautiful clothes with my money, but I've also earned it.
And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's r...
We're making clothes - we aren't saving the world. I'm not saying that designers aren't artists, but at the end of the day, we make clothes. Hopefully we make beautiful clothes with a message, but in the end it's for people to wear. I think that the ...
A woman's clothes are the price her husband pays for peace.
There's no shame in clothing you haven't cut yourself.
