Cloaks

Famous quotes containing the word cloaks:

“So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulders.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 12:34.

“The stars are putting on their glittering belts.
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow’s last embellishment.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)