From Rags Quotes

#1. You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

Brian Tracy

#2. The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Robert Reich

#3. The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

Waverley Root

#4. My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

Diana Ross

#5. Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

Brian Tracy

#6. Something wrong?" Will asked.
"This," Gabriel said. He held up a broadsheet newspaper called the Star. "It's awful."
"I agree," Will said. "Those halfpenny rags are terrible. But you seem to be more upset about them than is appropriate.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.

Ellis Peters

#8. I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen, ... even if Gargery and Boffin did not speak like gentlemen, they were gentlemen.

Charles Dickens

#9. What strange times we live in, when good must disguise itself in the tawdry rags of evil!

Amin Maalouf

#10. Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#11. I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.

Catherine Fisher

#12. Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

Austin O'Malley

#13. I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.

Haruki Murakami

#14. A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.

Velimir Khlebnikov

#15. ...There was a menagerie in which hideous clowns, dressed in rags and come from who knows where, were in 1823 exhibiting to the peasants of Montfermeil one of those hideous Brazilian vultures.

Victor Hugo

#16. I saw a man clothed with rags ... a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

John Bunyan

#17. I tell you one thing that's great about children. They don't need a show to have fun. What do they need? A book of matches, some oily rags, a little brother ... that's all they need.

Dave Attell

#18. Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#19. Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

Casey Stengel

#20. Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

Garth Brooks

#21. We all are like filthy rags in the site of God; not one clean enough, good enough, righteous enough, to stand before a holy God.

Robin Bertram

#22. These people walk by a window deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual" But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story.

Yann Martel

#23. The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

John L. Lewis

#24. The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr - smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

Henri Barbusse

#25. In the army of indigence the uniform is rags; they serve to distinguish the rank and file from the recruiting officers.

Ambrose Bierce

#26. A crap upbringing doesn't make someone weak, it makes them strong or how else could they get through it.

Suzanne Wrightt

#27. [My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

August Strindberg

#28. Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#29. Men, I say, but better to call them human spiders that go crawling in between and under the tables with rags in their hands, ..from the reader's choice about MK Gandhi and his works for the regeneration of human kind.

N.a.

#30. You learnt a great deal, Louisa, and so did your brother. Ologies of all kinds from morning to night. If there is any Ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags in this house, all I can say is, I hope I shall never hear its name

Charles Dickens

#31. From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Criss Jami

#32. The wind pounced on them hard. It had blown some of the cloud away and stretched the rest across the sky like rags on a loom to make a rug. A blue and white and gray rug like that would b pretty, thought Arry. But how do I know that? Do I know it?

Pamela Dean

#33. Mrs. Carter raised her chin. "The essence of a lady comes from within," she said in a gentle but firm tone. "A lady can wear rags, but as long as she holds her head up and carries herself proudly, people will see her, not her clothing.

Debra Holland

#34. Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#35. Oh, these rags and tags of other people's making! Would he ever be able to call his brain his own? Was there, indeed, anything in it that was truly his own, or was it simply an education?

Aldous Huxley

#36. I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.

Kangana Ranaut

#37. When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

Annie Lennox

#38. I was the epitome of rags to riches.

Jason Mitchell

#39. Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

#40. Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

Samuel Johnson

#41. God walks 'round in muddy boots, sometimes rags and that's the truth. You can't always tell but sometimes you just know. " From Geodes

Carrie Newcomer

#42. Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.

Karen Abbott

#43. The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Mark Akenside

#44. First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You ... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up ...

Jean Genet

#45. The winter is made and you have to bear it,
The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind,
For all the thoughts of summer that go with it
In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags ...

Wallace Stevens

#46. Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the stony earth.

Laird Barron

#47. How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life.

Katherine Mansfield

#48. Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Alexander Pope

#49. There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

George Farquhar

#50. They came out. They were children. They wore rags and their skin was livid with sores. Their veins were tubes, their hair wire. Sapphique reached out and touched them.
'You are the ones who will save us,' he said.

Catherine Fisher

#51. When is truth pleasing? It is only when we clothe it's nakedness with rags of imagination, or sweeten it with fiction, that it can please.

H. Rider Haggard

#52. One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#53. Be not among z drunkards [5] or among a gluttonous eaters of meat, 21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and b slumber will clothe them with rags.

Anonymous

#54. Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

Philip Massinger

#55. I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.

Martin Freeman

#56. People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.

Thomas Pynchon

#57. It is here, it exists - but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest clarity of mind - not an innocent heart, but that which is much rarer: an intransigent mind - as one's only possession and key.

Ayn Rand

#58. You were a well-respected agent, Michael, a rags-to-riches fairytale ending. Until you became disgraced. Now it appears your own organization wishes to be rid of you. Why is this?"
"My gun turned back into a pumpkin.

Nenia Campbell

#59. Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

Austin O'Malley

#60. It ain't what you're driving or the clothes that you wear, material possessions won't matter up there. And someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well these rags that I'm wearin' will be fit for a king.

Garth Brooks

#61. A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.

Swami Vivekananda

#62. She had thrown away twenty years of her life like a handful of old rags, but the wind had blown them back again, and dressed her in the old uniform.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#63. It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, 9 periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very 10 rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the 11 most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable 12 dumb shows and noise. I

William Shakespeare

#64. Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head.

David Baldacci

#65. To feel myself. Light as a feather free as a bird, though long since fit to be shot down. Unleash the dog with no sense of shame. Become this or that. Awaken the dead. Wear my pal Baldander's rags for a change. Lose my way on a single-minded quest.

Gunter Grass

#66. Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.

Victor Hugo

#67. Now Suzanne takes your hand
and she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
from Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
on our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
among the garbage and the flowers

Leonard Cohen

#68. If a woman recognizes her power, she can present herself in rags and people will recognize her as queen.

Beth Kery

#69. Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#70. I'm no Cinderella. No fairy godmother will be coming to my rescue, so it's time to turn these rags into gowns and get ready before my pumpkin ride arrives in two hours.

Cecilia Robert

#71. The Greek knows how to live with his rags: they don't utterly degrade and befoul him as in other countries I have visited.

Henry Miller

#72. The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Charles A. Reich

#73. In the school suggestion box, brought out at times, Sting put in a scrap of notepaper advising the authorities to ban the 'slipper', advising everyone to wrap rags around their feet.

James Berryman

#74. Europeans started wearing linen underwear instead of wool. There is no record indicating that this made the Europeans less irritable, but it did make a lot more rags available.

Mark Kurlansky