Quotes of: Robes Keyword

Patience and the mulberry leaf become a silk robe.

Chinese

I am bundled in the warmth of the price and the purchase, and its solid completion, as in royal robes-- marvelous these royal robes! These robes are authority that can decree that trouble, sin of my heart, and the deceptive obstruction of will and re...

Growth In Expression: Modern Christian Poems

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

Mo Udall

Ron: Oh look, Mum's sent me something. [pulls some frilly robes from the package] Ron: Mum sent me a dress! Harry: Well, it does match your eyes. Is there a bonnet? [pulls out more lace] Harry: Ah ha! Ron: Nose down, Harry. Ginny, this must be for yo...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you’ll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased.

Crepuscule

George Bailey: [on Mary being caught naked in the bushes after her robe slips off] This is a very interesting situation! Mary: Please give me my robe. George Bailey: A man doesn't get in a situation like this every day. Mary: I'd like to have my robe...

It's a Wonderful Life

Since when do wizards wear robes?" I whispered. "That's falling into every human stereotype ever created." Jeezum. Next thing you knew, they'd be waving around magic wands. "The First Elder thought they'd look more intimidating in robes than in busin...

Pirate's Alley

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Barbara Tuchman

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

Thomas Campbell

Frank Booth: Get your fuckin' robe!

Blue Velvet

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Stephen Breyer

After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?

Danny DeVito

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

Tammy Bruce

They preferred writing about great men to writing about great hills; but they sat on the great hills to write it. They gave out much less about Nature, but they drank in, perhaps, much more. They painted the white robes of their holy virgins with the...

G.K. Chesterton

Time unlived grows old Like unworn robes in a locked chest.

Poems of Oktay Rifat

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

John Buchan

I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.

Afrika Bambaataa

Hans: [When Avner covering the naked body of the dead Jeanette with her robe] Leave it!

Munich

Maude Lebowski: Jeffrey. The Dude: ...Maude? Maude Lebowski: Love me. The Dude: That's my robe.

The Big Lebowski

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

Seeker After Truth

I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight.

Sugar Ray Leonard