Knitting Quotes - Page 6

• I think also people in states like Pennsylvania know that a lot of money and effort and time needs to be spent on knitting America back together, on the bridges and the roads and the infrastructure and the education.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Bridges, America

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Father, Reading

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.220, Library of Alexandria

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• I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.

  Regina Spektor

  Names, Piano, Guy

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• "Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.

  Rachel Hawkins

  Favorite Hobby, Ghouls, Hobbies

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• I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing." And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Eye, Thinking, Years

  Source: thetartan.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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