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.
Youth is a lifestyle; it's not a blessing from God. If we treat our bodies as if they are not the most precious things we possess, then obviously we will show wear and tear. We're like a good pair of jeans. If we take care of them, they'll remain classic forever, but if we batter and abuse them they'll look like tattered old rags.
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 man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots.
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.
It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.
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.
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.