Quilts Quotes - Page 2

• I can remember when pants were pants. You wore them for twenty years, then you cut them down for pan scrubs. Or quilts.

  Victoria Wood

  Cutting, Years, Twenties

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• I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Art, Women, Symbolism

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• The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

  Jesse Owens

  Men, African American, Words Of Wisdom

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• Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

  Lucille Ball

  Hands, Looks, Use

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• My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Memories, White, Light

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Thinking, Tinkering, Woods

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• Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.' And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about - whenever the wind blows.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Nice, Sleep

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice In Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: Alice in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Hunting of the Snark and Alice Underground”, p.82, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men. Nobody need ever be bored. Amusement did not have to be bought.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Girl, War, Home

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• Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Women, Moving, Political

  Miriam Schapiro (1985). “Miriam Schapiro: Femmages, 1971-1985 : Brentwood Gallery, 1221 South Brentwood Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63117 : May 17-June 30, 1985”

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• Some women don't care how their quilts look. They piece the squares together any sort of way, but she couldn't stand careless sewing. She wanted her quilts, and Joy's, made right. Quilts stay a long time after people are gone from this world, and witness about them for good or bad. She wanted people to see, when she was gone, that she'd never been a shiftless or don't-care woman.

  Julia Peterkin

  Squares, Long, People

  Julia Mood Peterkin (1927). “Black April: A Novel”, p.128, University of Georgia Press

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• When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.

  Rosa Parks

  Determination, Winter, Night

  "Parks remembered for her courage, humility". www.cnn.com. October 30, 2005.

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• After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.

  Sandra Dallas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

  Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.68, Macmillan

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• People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Book, People, Assuming

  Jennifer Chiaverini (2011). “The Quilter's Legacy: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• When I look back on my career - if that's what it is - it looks a bit like a crazy quilt, and I think it's just really because, when one job has finished, I've never really been in a position where I had three or four options.

  Alfred Molina

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

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• I think I'm one of the patches of the quilt here, myself and Dwyane.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Thinking, Patches

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• Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Memories, Flower, Quality

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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• The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.

  Elizabeth Barton

  Color, Issues, Space

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• As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.

  Lewis Mumford

  Photography, Crazy, Reality

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• Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love Is, Loving Life, Cake

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

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• The kiss began much the same as usual--Edward was as careful as ever, and my heart began to overreact like it always did. And then something seemed to change. Suddenly his lips became much more urgent, his free hand twisted into my hair and held my face securely to his. And though I was clearly beginning to cross his cautious lines, for once he didn't stop me. His body was cold through the thin quilt, but I crushed myself against him eagerly.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heart, Kissing, Hair

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• I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Reading, Night

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.

  Robin Sloan

  Crazy, Thinking, Space

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan

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• I-I’m not making advances,” she told him as she flattened herself against his chest. “You’re just an available s-source of heat.” “So you say,” St. Vincent replied lazily, tucking the quilt more tightly around them both. “However, during the past quarter hour you’ve been fondling parts of my anatomy that no one’s ever dared to touch before.” “I v-very much doubt that.” She burrowed even further into the depths of his coat, and added in a muffled voice, “You’ve probably been h-handled more than a hamper at Fortnum and Mason.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Past, Voice, Doubt

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• Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.

  Yao Ming

  Dream, Sweet, Sometimes

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• To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Regret

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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