Mittens Quotes

• He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rocks, Hands, Magic

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.205

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• Scarves, mittens, and hats are a great way to express your personality in the cold weather

  Brad Goreski

  Weather, Personality, Scarves

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• I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.

  George Strait

  Inspirational, Groundhog Day, Men

  Song: The Best Day Of My Life

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• Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

  Robert Breault

  Struggle, Long Ago, Parent

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• Handle your tools without mittens.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Work, Tools, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.3

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• For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Baby, Children

  P. J. O'Rourke (1987). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, Pocket

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• Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new. But there may be an important choice to make at such moments. Do we support and protect the innate wish to be of help to others in our children, or do we protect the eggs? Hard as it seems, the greater mother wisdom may lie in a willingness to clean up broken eggs or replace a mitten and a box of crayons.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Juice, Wet

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• My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Trying, Faces, Bottles

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Dry”, p.240, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

  David Levithan

  Lobster, Want, Steps

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.32, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Nuthin' can avoid this shot 'cause it's hittin'
  It's so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten

  Eazy-E

  Hip Hop, Causes, Shots

  Song: We Want Eazy, Album: Eazy-Duz-It, 1988

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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, Knitting, Waiting In Line

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• What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper.
  [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce
  D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle
  D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Knowledge, Slippers, Fool

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• It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I could hear a thud as they hit the floor joists, then a scuttling sound, then, worst of all, the silence of spiders.

  Bailey White

  Mean, Silence, Shadow

  Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.

  Beatrix Potter

  Cat, Dust, Names

  Beatrix Potter (2016). “The Tale of Tom Kitten: Beatrix's Tales”, VM eBooks

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• You all know Newt Gingrich. Newt is short for Newton. People say if that's the case, what is Mitt short for? It's short for 'Mittens.'

  David Letterman

  People, Newton, Newts

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• The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.

  Dick Cavett

  Hunting, Animal, Winning

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• Don't tell me to leave-you leave. If Obama, if Clinton, if Mittens Romney, if Rick Santorum, if Neutered Gingrich, if Herman '999 666' Cain, if Michelle Bachmann, if Sarah Palin, if Harry Reid-if any of these people want to tell me to leave because I don't believe their BS, come over and we can talk. You want to go man-to-man with me? We could go at it. Don't send one of your flunkies.

  Gerald Celente

  Believe, Men, People

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• Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when she wants pity. And she shuts her eyes when she doesn't want to look at you. And if you look deep in her eyes when her eyes are open you will see lights there exactly like the lights on the pastures and the meadows when the mist is drifting on a Wednesday evening just between the twilight and gloaming.

  Carl Sandburg

  Nice, Twilight, Eye

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• I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.

  Frank Zappa

  Revenge, Eye, Yellow

  Song: Nanook Rubs It

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• (knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't feel the movement of her hands. On the interstate one day, they were slowly passing a semi and my father happened to see the truck driver laugh and point out my mother's knitting to his passenger. Whoops-

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Mother, Father, Knitting

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• A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

  Tori Amos

  Music, Song, Play

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