#coat

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#bags #beaver #buffalo #chosen #coats

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat? ↗

— Clara Barton

#coat #does #ever #his #hole

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#coat #dining #dress #evening #girl

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. ↗

— John Updike

#baby #coat #gold #like #longer

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#chase #coat #even #free #hell

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#cute #i #japanese #name #ritual

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#chickens #coats #course #dear #dogs

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#bear #coat #colour #criticised #gets

My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#basics #blocks #boots #budget #building

In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#first #myself #person #self #walden