"We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need."
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"The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt."
"I find that a shirt is most similar to a napkin when I don't have a napkin."
"I'd rather throw a viper down my shirt front than hire a compensation consultant."
"What I've always loved to do is build a brand that's so cool that you want to wear their T-shirt."
"If God didn't want man to hunt, He wouldn't have given us plaid shirts."
"I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest."
"It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before."
"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."
"I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us."
"When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make."
"My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back."
"I usually always start with the jeans, which is weird because most guys, I would say, start with a shirt and build around the shirt. I always start with the jeans and I have so many jeans. I have an entire rack of just jeans."
"I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt."
"All true wisdom is found on T-shirts."
"Politics is everywhere. It's in your shirt, it's in your pants. It's everywhere."
"I stole a shirt off Jacques (Kallis) and a pullover off Harry (Paul Harris) that still had his hamburger stain on the front left side of it."
"I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia."
"How come, when people wear half shirts, it's always the top half?"
"See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire."
"I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, too sexy it hurts."