Sewing Quotes

• If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

  Tim Gunn

  Design, Able, Ifs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. 11 de febrero de 2014.

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• A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Family, Quilts, Together

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• I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Musician

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• Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Time, Quilts, Children

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Guardian Angel”, p.179, Reprint Services Corporation

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• A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Angry Man, Goes On

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1660, e-artnow

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

  Mason Cooley

  Cutting, Machines, Path

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• I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Ideas, Looks, Wanted

  Fuente: pitchfork.com

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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

  Suffering, Machines, Lunatic Asylums

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.51, Anchor

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• Grace cannot wipe out the law of sewing and reaping.

  Rod Parsley

  Law, Grace, Wipe

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• I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Together, Abandoned, Whole

  Louise Bourgeois, Gerald Matt, Peter Weiermair (2005). “Louise Bourgeois: Aller-Retour : Zeichnungen und Skulpturen”, Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst

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• Mamá cosía los trapos juntos, cosiendo cada pieza con amor. Me hizo un abrigo de muchos colores del que me sentía orgullosa.

  Dolly Parton

  Family, Color, Together

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• 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 more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Home, Heart, Accomplishment

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.730, e-artnow

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• Los niños piensan con el cerebro abierto de par en par; convertirse en adulto, he decidido, no es más que una lenta costura cerrada.

  Jodi Picoult

  Crecer, Niños, Pensar

  Jodi Picoult (2009). "El guardián de mi hermana: A Novel", p.358, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jeff Bezos

  Running, Coffee, Espresso

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• One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

  Marcel Pagnol

  Machines, Bombs, Watches

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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 my heart and thoughts.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Heart, Paint, Brushes

  "Your Occasional Pope" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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• In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark.

  George Carlin

  Giving, Together, Buttons

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• I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.

  Jo Brand

  Husband, Yesterday, My Birthday

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• Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Use, Fabric

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.259, Penguin

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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

  Skins, Together, Different

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families that have a dishwasher, that have a sewing machine, that have a television set. In respect to consumption, it's very hard to avoid the view that people have been getting more equal rather than more unequal.

  Milton Friedman

  Views, People, Income

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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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 it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Mom, Home, Grandmother

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• It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Husband, Thinking, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.26, Storey Publishing

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• I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Littles

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• 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

  Going Away, Machines, Use

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