Quotes About Capes

#1. When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

Fred Rogers

#2. All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.

Louis Leterrier

#3. Ian," Bones drew out warningly.
He waved a hand. "Stop growling, Crispin. I'm well over my former attraction to your wife, but the point remains that I'm stunning."
With that, he got out of the car and sauntered off with his open shirt flapping behind him like twin mini capes.

Jeaniene Frost

#4. I'm in this relationship for the capes and castles.

Susan Griffith

#5. Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.

Anders Holm

#6. Fun fact about life or death fights between capes. You start letting your enemies make the first move, your mortality rate triples.

Wildbow

#7. In the beginning we all feel a bit like imposters in our capes and veils and being called 'sister'. But don't worry about it
just act like you think a nun should when you're not sure what to do, and you'll find that through grace and love you become one.

Mark Salzman

#8. Our favorite games were killing.
Our favorite books were death.
It had been beaten into us:
God is love.
Not the parched face and gnarled
capes across a stick body; jittering
in the nude sky, we couldn't see
trying to touch us
for the blood in our eyes.

Joseph Bathanti

#9. If we wear our nursing covers backwards like capes, then everyone can see we're breastfeeding superheroes.

Cassi Clark

#10. No fancy hair and clothes, no flaming capes. Just me. Looking like I could be headed for the woods. It calms me. - Katniss

Suzanne Collins

#11. Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

Tyson Chandler

#12. Why do superheroes wear capes? His brother's voice.
To show how cape-able they are? His own childhood voice.

Lokesh Sharma

#13. For heaven's sake, Wade, you sound as if it involved capes and daggers and poisons. Take out one of your dreams and dust it off and send it to Miss Harper to work on. Goodness knows you have enough of them lurking in that aweful brain of yours.

Rachel Heffington

#14. Look, they're wearing light blue gauzy frozen superhero capes because I have told them that Anna is a junior superhero with a black sister and a gay brother- both of whom are off ruling other countries because, y'know, they have jobs. You do your mothering your way. I'll do my mothering mine .

Shonda Rhimes

#15. It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.

Joan Bauer

#16. I explained that I'd been homeschooled but that didn't help. She must have been picturing cavemenlike supervillians in capes grunting and showing me how to rub two sticks together to make the pretty fire stuff.

Chelsea M. Campbell

#17. Where germs go?"
"Sunrise," I said. "Poof."
Butter's voice sounded bewildered. "Vampire germs?"
"The tiny capes are a dead giveaway.

Jim Butcher

#18. Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and Venice (Which is where all schoolkids go on field trips, right?) They're not afraid of wearing brooches, capes, embroidery, and even a dab-bing of makeup.

Derek Blasberg

#19. Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There's no pearly gate, no prisms of colors as his soul slips away. The stillness is cold steel. The silence is empty with no memory to mend it.

Laura Kreitzer

#20. Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads.

Boonaa Mohammed

#21. Heroes don't always wear capes, badges, or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.

Andrea Randall

#22. This effect could possibly contribute to the reason kings wore capes in the first place and why most male superheroes do too. It is obviously not a practical garment, but it can improve a male's attractiveness by helping him improve his posture.

W. Anton

#23. 'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.

Michael Patrick King

#24. Looked around for Grandma, spotting her and Dougie hiding behind a car on the opposite side of the street. They were wearing Super Suits and they had bath towels pinned around their necks like capes.

Janet Evanovich

#25. Capes are the poetic points of continents. They are the summits of our sailing souls.

Kaci Cronkhite

#26. Treats and tricks.
Witch broomsticks.
Jack-o-lanterns
Lick their lips.

Crows and cats.
Vampire bats.
Capes and fangs
And pointed hats.

Werewolves howl.
Phantoms prowl.
Halloween's
Upon us now.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. My (paradoxically) Christian name was bestowed in compliment to a godfather, sir. I am no Jew. I have already enough to know the curse of having more.

Bernard Capes

#28. I think God hands over to His apprentices the moulding of vessels that don't interest Him.
("The Accursed Cordonnier")

Bernard Capes

#29. Bully the jade, and she will love you.
("The Accursed Cordonnier")

Bernard Capes

#30. If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.

Geoff Capes

#31. Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.

Marianne Moore

#32. Let the beggar speak for himself. He's in earnest. Haven't we been bred on the principle of self-sacrifice, till we've come to think a man's self is his uncleanest possession?

Bernard Capes

#33. Julesa: "Are you a fool? Father will have you hung if he realises you've escaped."
Never: "Everyone dies from something.

Ashley Capes

#34. I hate my Visa card but have to use it for diesel, insurance and big items. I prefer paying by cash whenever possible because that way I feel as if I've got a better grasp on what I'm spending.

Geoff Capes

#35. I don't spend and save whenever I have spare cash. I dislike people who boast about money.

Geoff Capes

#36. I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

Alexander Graham Bell

#37. In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.

Geoff Capes

#38. Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Herman Melville

#39. Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.

Bob Dylan

#40. I do prefer being alive. Most days.

Ashley Capes

#41. Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.

Jacob Zuma

#42. During my early days as a sportsman and early career as a policeman, things were tight. In athletics I competed as an amateur and, although I might have received some expenses, very little came my way in earnings.

Geoff Capes

#43. A little slower, sweetheart. Cape Cod is freezing over.

Rick Riordan

#44. It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.

Geoff Capes

#45. I've coached people who were ranked number one in the country but didn't get any support while other areas of sport got medium to full funding, even though the individuals had no hope of getting on to the rostrum.

Geoff Capes

#46. I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.
("The Accursed Cordonnier")

Bernard Capes

#47. Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim.

Jim Croce

#48. How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press.

Thabo Mbeki

#49. I remember the first time I had sex. I wore a cape and goggles ... because I didn't know.

Eugene Mirman

#50. And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

K. Sello Duiker

#51. I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.

Sune Rose Wagner

#52. There are things you don't do in life. You don't tug on superman's cape ...

Roman Reigns

#53. When you experience having nothing you value everything - and that applies to all aspects of life.

Geoff Capes

#54. A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

Joan Walsh Anglund

#55. I bought my first house when I was 24 for £19,500 and it was sold two years ago for £256,000. I've always made profit on my houses.

Geoff Capes

#56. Don't plan to lose anything.

Ashley Capes

#57. The truth of the matter doesn't hinge on your belief.

Ashley Capes

#58. I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.

Geoff Capes

#59. As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity.

John F. Kennedy

#60. One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries.

Geoff Capes

#61. I prefer to give money to the person who's provided the good service. But I never tip at hotels, I think they overcharge anyway. But anything which is value for money will get my vote.

Geoff Capes

#62. Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.

Geoff Capes

#63. Keep your chin up. No one expected you to save the world, otherwise you would have been born wearing a cape and tights. Just do the best you can.

John Assaraf