Needlework Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

• Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke… — Miriam Schapiro
• The needlework of lies and rumors seeks to distract peoples attention from the daily business of governance under the Presidents leadership. Those who continually plot… — Eduardo Ermita
• From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. — Honore de Balzac
• There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing… — Elizabeth Zimmermann
• For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed. — Elizabeth Zimmermann
• The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. — Mason Cooley
• Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
• Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. — Benjamin Franklin
• Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. — Theodore Roosevelt
• By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving. — Patrick Rothfuss
• I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly… — L.A. Meyer
• Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls… — George R. R. Martin
• I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull. — R.L. LaFevers
• What do you like to do?” She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.” “Very restful, isn’t it?” “Well,” said Arya, “not the way I… — George R. R. Martin
• My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals. — Betsy Byars

Who Wrote These Needlework Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Needlework Quotes as follows:

• 2 Needlework Quotes by George R. R. Martin
• 2 Needlework Quotes by Elizabeth Zimmermann
• 1 Needlework Quote by Miriam Schapiro
• 1 Needlework Quote by Eduardo Ermita
• 1 Needlework Quote by Honore de Balzac
• 1 Needlework Quote by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• 1 Needlework Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
• 1 Needlework Quote by Patrick Rothfuss
• 1 Needlework Quote by L.A. Meyer
• 1 Needlework Quote by R.L. LaFevers
• 1 Needlework Quote by Betsy Byars
• 1 Needlework Quote by Mason Cooley
• 1 Needlework Quote by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
• 1 Needlework Quote by Benjamin Franklin
• 1 Needlework Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne