Knitting Quotes - Page 6

• And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Beautiful, Husband, Son

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• Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Opportunity, Waiting In Line, People

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• I'm not a detective from Baker Street or an old lady who solves crimes while she's knitting in an easy chair. I'm just a book girl. So I can't make a deduction, only take a flight of fancy--er, forget I said that. I meant, I can only take a guess.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Girl, Book, Fancy

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• The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a mechanical process but a work on the analogy of weaving or knitting: "Thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb" (psalm 139:13). The life of the unborn is the knitting of God, and what He is knitting is a human being in His own image, unlike any other creature in the universe... The destruction of conceived human life - whether embryonic, fetal, or viable - is an assault on the unique person-forming work of God.

  John Piper

  Mother, Unique, Abortion

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• I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Relaxation, Going Out, Chairs

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• Your face will freeze like that, you know, Kat," Raffin said helpfully to Katsa. "Maybe I should rearrange your face, Raff," said Katsa. "I should like smaller ears," Raffin offered. "Prince Raffin has nice, handsome ears," Helda said, not looking up from her knitting. "As will his children. Your children will have no ears at all, My Lady," she said sternly to Katsa. Katsa stared back at her, flabbergasted. "I believe it's more that her ears won't have children," began Raffin, "which, you'll agree, sounds much less—

  Kristin Cashore

  Children, Nice, Believe

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• You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

  Henry Beard

  Food, Cooking, Reason Why

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• O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Mother, Dream, Son

  Siegfried Sassoon (2012). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

  Felicity Huffman

  Kids, Italian, Makeup

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• I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rude, Opera, Might

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• Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Husband, Taken, Bored

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

  J. D. Salinger

  War, Book, Hero

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• There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

  Albert Camus

  War, Men, Ideas

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.114, Vintage

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• I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Acting, Agents, Evolution

  "Axis". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2007.

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• If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.

  Patricia Briggs

  Ducks, Wonder, Ends

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.30, Penguin

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