Embroidery Quotes

36 quotes by 33 authors

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;… — Samuel Johnson
With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears. — John Milton
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and… — George Washington
Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread… — Eliza Bennett
I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What… — Wendell Berry
Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery — Sappho
None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look… — Charlotte Mason
Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a… — Charlotte Gray
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are… — Nicholas Ray
Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a… — Corrie Ten Boom
When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them… — Alexander McQueen
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about… — Lynn Abbey
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in… — William Butler Yeats
And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too,… — Umberto Eco
The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer. — Maria Mitchell
Humility is the embroidery of chiefs. — Bill Vaughan
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. — R. Buckminster Fuller
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 beautiful… — Claire Danes
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. — Mao Zedong

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