Quotes of Embroidery - somelinesforyou

“ I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint. ”

- Clare Boothe Luce

“ I keep my end tables full of needlework and quilting so I don't have to dust them. ”

- Unknown

“ Any day spent sewing, is a good day. ”

- Unknown

“ Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around. ”

- Unknown

“ As ye sew, so shall ye rip. ”

- Unknown

“ So much fabric, so little time! Or, sew much fabric, sew little time! ”

- Unknown

“ Sewing: A creative mess is better than tidy idleness. ”

- Unknown

“ Sewing fills my days, not to mention the living room, bedroom, and closets. ”

- Unknown

“ Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage. ”

- Unknown

“ In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running. ”

- Jeff Bezos

“ Stitch your stress away. ”

- Unknown

“ May your bobbin always be full! ”

- Unknown

“ I like making a piece of string into something I can wear. ”

- Unknown

“ Sewing mends the soul. ”

- Unknown

“ The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path. ”

- Mason Cooley

“ Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again. ”

- Dorothy Day

“ Woman embroiders man's life - Embroider is to beautify - The embroidery of cleanliness - Of a smile - Of gentle words. ”

- Mary Wood Allen

“ 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

“ A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. ”

- Zedong Mao

“ Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly. ”

- Mao Tse Tung
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