Words matter. These are the best Rags Quotes from famous people such as Dan Stevens, John Donne, Lauren Weisberger, Andre Ward, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn’t happen all the time.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
I admit to subscribing to all the celebrity rags. The best part of being an author is if the celebs aren’t being ridiculous enough, you can just make it up.
I don’t come from a position that I am better than everybody; I come from a position that I had a tough upbringing. And I don’t always highlight it, because I just never wanted to be that person with another rags to riches story.
My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.
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.
With the proper motivation, you can do anything. I was just a poor kid that ate pork and beans out of a can and apple sauce. I went from rags to riches. But it does take a lot of determination, inner strength, drive, and discipline.
I was the epitome of rags to riches.
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown’s disguise.
I had this extraordinary role-model of rags to riches success in my grandfather and yet I was a girl, and girls in a very military family were not meant to have professional careers. I think that created the spur and edge to drive me on.
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
I am the man who has risen from rags to riches.
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.
My life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches,’ but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps.
The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled – the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth – flies in the face of reality.
The anger from Occupy Wall Street is coming from this simple fact: America no longer seems to be a place where you can work your way up, from rags to riches, from lower class to middle class to upper class.
