Uniforms famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
-- Arthur Eddington -
In all of America, there is no more promising an urban area for revitalization than your own Over-the-Rhine. When I look at that remarkably untouched, expansive section of architecturally uniform structures, unmarred by clashing modern structures, I see in my mind the possibility for a revived district that literally could rival similar prosperous and heavily visited areas.
-- Arthur Frommer -
Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it.
-- Barack Obama -
Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.
-- Benjamin Banneker -
The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.
-- Bertrand Russell -
My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
-- Caio Fonseca -
I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
-- Carine Roitfeld -
We hated the Giants. We just hated the uniform.
-- Carl Furillo -
Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
-- Caroline Baum -
Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.
-- Chris Cannon -
The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.
-- Chuck Baldwin -
I'll never take for granted the opportunity to put on a Dodger uniform.
-- Clayton Kershaw -
I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.
-- Clemence Poesy -
I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.
-- Cole Younger -
The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.
-- Curt Flood -
A sheriff arrested me. I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure my men-in-uniform fetish began that day. The sheriff was hot. And he handcuffed me. I've never been the same.
-- Darynda Jones -
Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
-- Diane Setterfield -
I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else.
-- Dontrelle Willis -
What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
-- Duke of Wellington -
No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform.
-- Ed Wood -
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
-- Ellsworth Huntington -
You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.
-- Elspeth Huxley -
Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That's the best therapy.
-- Eric Davis -
Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.
-- Eric Dickerson -
My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.
-- Erika Christensen -
If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.
-- Ethan Hawke -
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor.
-- George Carlin -
I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.
-- George Stroumboulopoulos -
We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve nowadays are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.
-- George W. Bush -
My attitude is that when we put a youngster in harm's way, somebody who wears our nation's uniform in harm's way, he or she deserves the absolute best.
-- George W. Bush -
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
-- Giambattista Vico -
My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself. The oppressors are no longer really human, whatever uniform they wear.
-- Hajo Meyer -
If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.
-- Harriet Quimby -
If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.
-- Henry Mancini -
The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform.
-- Honorius Augustodunensis -
Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.
-- Hugh Shelton -
You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.
-- Jack L. Chalker -
Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.
-- Jacob M. Appel -
Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.
-- Jacqueline Winspear -
The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way.
-- Jim Benton -
Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.
-- Jim Carroll -
What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?
-- John Boyne -
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
-- John Crowe Ransom -
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.
-- John Dewey -
We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.
-- John Jay Chapman -
It's hurtful to know that Tommy Glavine won't be in a Braves uniform anymore.
-- John Schuerholz -
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
-- John Yoo -
It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that’s a weird image.
-- Jordan Sonnenblick -
I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.
-- Jorge Posada -
That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.
-- Joseph Addison -
Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.
-- Joseph McCarthy -
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.
-- Joseph-Louis Lagrange -
We will embrace you in uniform today, we will embrace you without uniform tomorrow.
-- Josephus Daniels -
They were chanting my name, but I don't know why. My name is on the back of my uniform. So, it's nice to know they can read.
-- Lance Berkman -
My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.
-- LeCrae -
Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform.
-- Leo Durocher -
I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.
-- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -
As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
-- Lester B. Pearson -
When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.
-- Linda Ellerbee -
Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.
-- Lorrie Fair -
A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.
-- Marc Morial -
The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.
-- Mark Peters -
Our men and women in uniform put their lives on the line for our nation every day; they should not have to jeopardize their financial well-being as well.
-- Mark Pryor -
I served my country in uniform for 26 years.
-- Martha McSally -
Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.
-- Mary Edwards Walker -
The uniform of polish uhlan makes even the youngest, inexperienced boy looks like he's made from steel.
-- Maynard Owen Williams -
My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.
-- Michael Haneke -
I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer -
He's a gutless puke, that's what Travis Green is. That's why he doesn't wear an Islander uniform any more.
-- Mike Milbury -
I am truly honored because I know, obviously, what Bob meant to the Twins. I always told myself, when I put a uniform on for the first time in 1998, that I'm going to give everything I have.
-- Mike Redmond -
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
-- Nancy Pelosi -
My uniform is usually just comfortable clothing. Being a stylist, you spend most of the day at photo shoots covered in safety pins.
-- Nicola Formichetti -
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
-- Pat Conroy -
Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really...
-- Patrick Stump -
I'll (Phil Rizzuto) never forget September 6, 1950. I got a letter threatening me, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It said if I showed up in uniform against the Red Sox I'd be shot. I turned the letter over to the FBI and told my manager Casey Stengel about it. You know what Casey did? He gave me a different uniform and gave mine to Billy Martin. Can you imagine that! Guess Casey thought it'd be better if Billy got shot.
-- Phil Rizzuto -
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
-- Plutarch -
I wear the same pants, same shirt and same shoes every day. I learned it from the greats, like Einstein. It's a uniform essentially.
-- Reggie Watts -
I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.
-- Rickey Henderson -
The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?
-- Robert Fisk -
When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.
-- Roberto Clemente -
The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform
-- Ryne Sandberg -
If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
-- Salmon P. Chase -
Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
-- Samuel Richardson -
I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool.
-- Shaun Alexander -
Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
-- Siobhan Fahey -
I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?
-- Stuart Rose -
I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'
-- Taylor Schilling -
At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
-- Ted Lindsay -
The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that crystals are formed by the same laws in spite of the diversity of their forms.
-- Theodor Schwann -
I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.
-- Theophilus London -
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
-- Thomas E. Mann -
I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.
-- Tommy Lasorda -
You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.
-- Tyler Perry -
My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.
-- Vera Wang
