Stitches Quotes

• We must make our lives as we sew, stitch by stitch.

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Our Lives

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• You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags.

  Anne Lamott

  Rags, Next, The Next One

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• Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

  China Mieville

  Memories, Past, Scar

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• To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. We mend. We women turn things inside out and set things right. We salvage what we can of human garments and piece the rest into blankets. Sometimes our stitches stutter and slow. Only a woman's eyes can tell. Other times, the tension in the stitches might be too tight because of tears, but only we know what emotion went into the making. Only women can hear the prayer.

  Louise Erdrich

  Prayer, Eye, Men

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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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  I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Twitter post from Dec 07, 2013

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• A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss

  Simon Haynes

  Loss, Blood, Uncontrollable

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• The more stitches, the less riches.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Riches, Mending

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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• When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

  Andrew Solomon

  Believe, Heart, People

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• The stitch of a book is its words.

  Rumer Godden

  Book

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• To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it - made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love You, First Love, Love Is

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• You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Needs, Band, Want

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2000). “Cheaters”, p.222, Penguin

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• When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Powerful, Inspiration

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• You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Cutting, Broken, Laughing

  "The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden". Book by Jessica Sorensen, March 19, 2013.

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• When I bite you, it'll be because I want to make your toes curl and your hair stand on end. And you won't need stitches afterward. You'll need crutches.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Hair, Curls, Needs

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• To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

  Louise Erdrich

  Prayer, Men, Speech

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• To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.

  Tom Rob Smith

  Fate

  Tom Rob Smith (2009). “Child 44”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

  Toni Morrison

  Believe, Writing, Dark

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Use, Research, Gestures

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or magazine, create something, anything.
  Pick up a needle and thread, and stitch together something particular and honest and beautiful, because we need it. I need it.
  Thank you, and keep going.

  Shauna Niequist

  Beautiful, Kids, Artist

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• Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.

  Vinnie Jones

  Football, Thinking, Years

  "What I see in the mirror: Vinnie Jones" by Vinnie Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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• It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Happy Birthday, Average, Two

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.17, Storey Publishing

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• Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Together, Stories

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.7, Canongate Books

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• So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Cutting, Survival

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• Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Food, Medicine

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

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