96 Cape Quotes

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Famous Cape Quotes

A good cover has a distinct silhouette — J. C. Leyendecker

A hat is just like a tiny apartment for your head. — Theo Von

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap. — Daniel Tosh

There's a woman protecting herself from the sun with a carousel. — Mike Shannon

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. — Paul A. Freund

A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat. — Gene Logsdon

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. - Ben Jonson

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. — Ben Jonson

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. - Frederick the Great

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. — Frederick the Great

Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter! — Bartholomew Roberts

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd. — Barack Obama

IF YOU APPROACH THE WORLD WITH THE APRON OF A SERVANT,THEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GO PLACES THAT YOU CAN'T GO IF YOU APPROACH IT WITH THE CROWN OF A KING — Jon Foreman

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. — Marshall McLuhan

An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other. — Norma Shearer

Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse. — Maajid Nawaz

Short Cape Quotes

  • There are things you don't do in life. You don't tug on superman's cape. — Roman Reigns
  • Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems. — Jacob Zuma
  • The rising tide lifts all the boats. — John F. Kennedy
  • What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world? — Kyle Chandler
  • I never play without my cape. — Bela Lugosi
  • I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog. — Martin Freeman
  • It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape. — Rick Riordan
  • I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. — Doris Lessing
  • Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. — John Masefield
  • Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral. — Unknown

Cape Image Quotes

Wear A Cape Quotes

A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl. — Joan Walsh Anglund

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. — Christian Bale

Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way. — Tom Hiddleston

Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape. — Dave Attell

I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports. — Matthew Gray Gubler

Keep your chin up. No one expected you to save the world, otherwise you would have been born wearing a cape and tights. Just do the best you can. — John Assaraf

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. — Taylor Swift

If Lady Gaga and Dorothy Parker had a secret love child, it would've been Gypsy Rose Lee. Gypsy arrived for opening nights at the Met wearing a full-length cape made entirely of orchids, while Lady Gaga shows up wearing a full-length cloak made of meat. — Karen Abbott

I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home. — Henry Cavill

I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit. — Shane Black

Cape Town Quotes

God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country. — Jacob Zuma

The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations. — Reinhard Bonnke

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. — William Bligh

Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses. — Wilbur Smith

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture. — K. Sello Duiker

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. — Rory Bremner

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.' — Maya Angelou

I've got two dogs - one's a Jack Russell and she's one year old now, and I've got another dog called Kanga, and I got him from a rescue shelter, and there's nothing I enjoy more than just walking them on the beach in Cape Town. I find that very destressing and very relaxing. — Lewis Pugh

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s. — Robert Towne

Cape Cod Quotes

As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity. — John F. Kennedy

I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile. — Betsy King

My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest. — Sebastian Junger

I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me. — Mamie Gummer

A little slower, sweetheart. Cape Cod is freezing over. — Rick Riordan

My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. — Rachael Ray

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More Cape Quotes

Superheroes allow their capes to hang off their backs; but our Superwomen choose to wrap them around their heads. — Boonaa Mohammed

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for. — Tucker Max

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all! — Alexander Graham Bell

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. — Richard Serra

Being a hero is a choice you can make, not a cape someone else will drape over you. You make your own cape. — Alexi Pappas

I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often. — Farley Mowat

How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press. — Thabo Mbeki

'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes. — Michael Patrick King

I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing — Andrea Gibson

Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age — Nizar Qabbani

So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. — William Adams

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs. — William Bligh

When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me. — Fred Rogers

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. — Van Wyck Brooks

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago. — Joseph C. Lincoln

Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim. — Jim Croce

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life. — Joseph C. Lincoln

And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw. — Joe Shuster

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses. — William Bligh

The dark prince sat astride his black steed, his sable cape flowing behind him. A golden circlet bound his blond locks, his handsome face was cold with the rage of battle, and... "And his arm looked like an eggplant," Clary muttered to herself in exasperation. — Cassandra Clare

There are these fantasies among people who watch movies where they're like, "Oh, there's a chemistry between them - something going on." And sometimes there is. But for me, it's more like, I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home. — Henry Cavill

I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement! — Amber Rose

Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace. — Robert Ardrey

Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras — Hart Crane

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