Sewing Quotes

73 Sewing quotes by 65 unique authors

Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of… — Michelle Huneven
The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. — Mason Cooley
I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing… — Hedi Slimane
Grace cannot wipe out the law of sewing and reaping. — Rod Parsley
I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement… — P.G. Wodehouse
Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of. — Dolly Parton
The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's… — John Dos Passos
When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else. — Beth Ditto
You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally… — Beth Ditto
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff. — Betsey Johnson
If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a… — David Lynch
I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot… — Rachel McAdams
I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home… — Rick Perry
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and… — Michelle Pfeiffer
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. — Jack Horner
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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
Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut. — Jodi Picoult
I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch — Adrienne Rich
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
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
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
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
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
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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