If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe. — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees, thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re revolutionizing… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“Perhaps thee will best understand what Abigail is like if I tell thee that when she quilts she prefers to stitch in… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The reason why I began making quilts is because I wrote my autobiography in 1980 and couldn't get it published because I… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the… — Abigail Scott Duniway Copy Share Image
I-I’m not making advances,” she told him as she flattened herself against his chest. “You’re just an available s-source of heat.” “So… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women… — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
I think our lives are connected by threads. We're weaving our own quilts as we go along and it has been my… — Kathy Garver Copy Share Image
The kiss began much the same as usual--Edward was as careful as ever, and my heart began to overreact like it always… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt,… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats,… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made… — Natalie Copy Share Image
Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Quilts are more than something to keep you warm. They give women a way to express themselves creatively.I like the way that… — Barbara Cameron Copy Share Image
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth,… — James Agee Copy Share Image
“My mama always said piecing quilts is like making friends.' She kept her eyes on the scissors as she cut up a… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
“The story quilt in the novel was inspired by the magnificent quilts of Harriet Powers, an enslaved woman from Georgia who used… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Suddenly it makes sense again. In no haze of mindfulness, staring down at this snow-covered quilt of America, I am the stars… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
