Famous quotes containing the word rag:
“New York is a woman
holding, according to history,
a rag called liberty with one hand
and strangling the earth with the other.”
—Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said] (b. 1930)
“He seems like an average type of man. Hes not, like smart. Im not trying to rag on him or anything. But he has the same mentality I haveand Im in the eighth grade.”
—Vanessa Martinez (b. c. 1978)
“... a friend told me that she had read of a woman who had knitted a wash rag for President Wilson. She was eighty years old and her friends thought it remarkable that she could knit a wash rag! I thought that if a woman of eighty could knit a wash rage for a Democratic President it behooved one of ninety-six to make something more than a wash rag for a Republican President.”
—Maria D. Brown (18271927)