With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every…

He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

— Mao Zedong

And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it…

— Umberto Eco

“Embroidery?" I sucked at embroidery. Aunt Hyacinth had tried to teach me, but we'd both given it up as a lost cause.Lucy, strangely, had…

— Alyxandra Harvey

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully,…

— Anonymous

“Every stitch is a prayer, and every thread—a blessing.”

— Lina Sol

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is…

— Corrie Ten Boom

Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and Venice (Which…

— Derek Blasberg

“The careful, embroidered stitches delineated a coil of some sort. It looked rather like a halved snail shell, but the interior was divided into…

— Tessa Dare

The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes…

— Edith Durham

“... life may be compared to a piece of embroidery, of which, during the first half of his time, a man gets a sight…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story"…

— Frank Delaney

“Embroidery is an improbable hobby for someone as disordered as me, but it's the very precision of it that attracts me, the illusion of…

— Jane Johnson

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

— Florence King

My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their…

— Claire Danes