Sewing Quotes
73 quotes by 65 authors
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As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.
— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away,…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.
— Jodi Picoult
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I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
— Adrienne Rich
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Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing…
— Jodi Picoult
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In fact, he's never taken an interest in a woman before. I was beginning to to suspect he might prefer one of his male sneaks,…
— Maria V. Snyder
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When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one…
— Jodi Picoult
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By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended…
— J R Ward
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Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say to that?
— Hillary Jordan
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No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what’s being said around her. Nevermind if a man’s mother and sister…
— Tamora Pierce
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I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
— Margaret Atwood
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I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.
— Saadat Hasan Manto
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God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping…
— Sharon Creech
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I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use…
— Bibhu Mohapatra
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A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of…
— David A. Bednar
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I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first…
— Donatella Versace
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A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western…
— Jason Wu
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Sleep is one of the great pleasures of life. Designing my bed linen line seemed like a natural progression for me. Everyone loves getting into…
— Twiggy
Who Wrote These Sewing Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 73 Sewing Quotes, led by these top contributors: