Quotes About Overalls

#1. Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.

Mike Rowe

#2. We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work

Thomas A. Edison

#3. DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.

Darren Hardy

#4. Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

Henry Ford

#5. Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.

Roger Ebert

#6. Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces. Caution has never been your strong suit.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#7. and hot raw wood. There was a guy behind a counter, in worn blue overalls stained black with dirt. He was

Lee Child

#8. An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.

Aimee Bender

#9. When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself ... I didn't feel good about my own body.

Candace Cameron Bure

#10. I was a boy in the ads I did as a child. My sister was the girl, and I was the boy. I had short hair and I was in overalls and I was giving flowers to my sister Daisy, who fit their model of what a girl was supposed to look like.

Rose McGowan

#11. They, the men, were saving with the mind what they lost with the eye. The women took the faded shirt and muddy overalls and laid them away for remembrance.

Zora Neale Hurston

#12. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

Greg Crabtree

#13. When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been engaged in a low wattage war someplace.

Craig Davidson

#14. I had chosen a blind spot at the end of the plumbers' shop to make my escape bid. Under my overalls I wore extra jeans, vest, t-shirt and I had a donkey jacket on that I intended to throw over the razor wire. Hopefully the extra clothes would stop the razor wire from cutting me.

Stephen Richards

#15. Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

Charles M. Schwab

#16. My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.

Lena Dunham

#17. Got more patches on her than a pair of welfare overalls.

Stephen King

#18. I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.

Valerie June

#19. I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Thomas A. Edison

#20. I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

Nelson Mandela

#21. I am wrestling with the overalls trend. I wore so many pairs in junior high, and no one thought they were cute. Perhaps I'll try them cuffed with a tasteful crop top?

Gillian Jacobs

#22. I have this arsenal of high-waisted wide-leg '70s pants and overalls. They are more roller-disco than Alexander Wang overalls.

Sophia Amoruso

#23. Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.

P. J. O'Rourke

#24. I've always been down to try out new things, but I was more of a jeans girl at age 17. I didn't want to show my legs. Now, I'm a dress-shirt girl, a shorts girl, a jeans girl, an overalls girl - I'll wear anything!

Kristinia DeBarge

#25. A bloody guy in overalls, wearing a straw hat, began chasing us. He held a saw, pointing it at us. We were gonna die! --The Body By the Tree

Yawatta Hosby

#26. He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest ... a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking.

Raymond Chandler

#27. I grew up in the '90s, so I've definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens.

Devin Kelley

#28. In the dank utility room deep in the subbasements of my personality, a little man wiped his hands on his overalls and pulled the switch: More.

Colson Whitehead

#29. I did have Skidz overalls. Remember Skidz, those baggy plaid pants that look like pajamas? So I did rock overalls, but not in purple velvet. I couldn't find those.

Patrick Wilson

#30. -what are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady!-

Harper Lee

#31. I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls.

Clemence Poesy

#32. Opportunities will not overlook you because you are wearing overalls.

Henry Ford

#33. I feel like Snow White because now I have a bunch of little dwarf friends who love me. I may not know how Scout's overalls feel but I think I know how Snow White's Shoes feel because now I know why Snow White was happy.

Kathryn Erskine

#34. No parents. You have Uncle Jesse, forever in overalls. Then there's Bo and Duke. What do they do? I never saw them working for food or gas money. You can only kill so many possum.

Bill Engvall

#35. The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Thomas A. Edison

#36. Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed ...

James Joyce