Patchwork Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt. — Lucille Ball
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living. — Paramahansa Yogananda
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. — Michel de Montaigne
When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out… — Alan Brennert
My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only… — Susan Wiggs
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A… — Jesse Owens
There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the… — Jamsetji Tata
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren. — Elizabeth May
I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork. — Sara Zarr
We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis… — Scott McClellan
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and… — Alice Sebold
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. — Barack Obama
Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here,… — Toni Morrison
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and… — Malcolm Gladwell
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and… — Anne Lamott
Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail,… — Neil Gaiman
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can… — Alice Sebold
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much… — Pascal Mercier
You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces,… — Robin Sloan

Who Wrote These Patchwork Quotes

26 authors contributed a total of 28 Patchwork Quotes, led by these top contributors: