Quilts Quotes

• The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Gay

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• America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

  Jesse Jackson

  Color, Common Threads, America

  1984 Launching his 'rainbow coalition' at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 Jul.

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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, Children, Taken

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Guardian Angel”, p.179, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Life is less a quest than a quilt. We find meaning, love, and prosperity through the process of stitching together our bold attempts to help others find their own way in their lives. The relationships we weave become an exquisite and endless pattern.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Helping Others, Together, Quests

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.357, Crown Business

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• The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Squares, Important, Whole

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Mar 25, 2012

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• I think our lives are connected by threads. We're weaving our own quilts as we go along and it has been my experience that there are so many threads that connect people. Invisible threads, strong threads, sparkling threads, but I think there is so much interconnectivity between people and I acknowledge that and I see it all the time. I think some of that is divine.

  Kathy Garver

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When you spend time making something with your two hands, you impart love in a way that buying never can.

  Natalie

  Lying, Hands, Two

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• Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things.

  Robert Reynolds

  Inspiration, Made, Patchwork Quilt

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• Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Art, Passion, Creativity

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• Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other.

  Toni Morrison

  Reality, Cells, Pieces

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• We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Nature, Ideas, Environmental

  Joseph Chilton Pearce (2002). “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

  Jesse Jackson

  Native American, Gay, White

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Family, Together, Quilting

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• While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

  Bob Menendez

  Strong, Thinking, Rights

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• I grow old though pleased with my memories The tasks I can no longer complete Are balanced by the love of the tasks gone past I offer no apology only this plea: When I am frayed and strained and drizzle at the end Please someone cut a square and put me in a quilt That I might keep some child warm And some old person with no one else to talk to Will hear my whispers And cuddle near

  Nikki Giovanni

  Children, Memories, Apology

  Nikki Giovanni, “Quilts”

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• Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Inspirational, Birthday, Powerful

  "The Power and Solidarity of Women". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 09, 2016.

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• If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet.

  Cicely Tyson

  Color, Yarn, Pieces

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• He remembered waking up once, listening to the wind, thinking of all the dark and rushing cold outside and all the warmth of this bed, filled with their peaceful heat under two quilts, and wishing it could be like this forever.

  Stephen King

  Dark, Thinking, Wind

  Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

  Laini Taylor

  Here And There, Fairy Tale, Patches

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• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  Hanna Rosin

  Men, Kitchen, Pipe

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• Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Feet, Hands, Profound

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• When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

  Faith Ringgold

  Able, Painting, Accepting

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• My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

  Angela Kinsey

  Mom, Southern, Fabulous

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• There has never been, and never will be, anyone who sees,
  thinks, or responds exactly the way you do. Whether you’re
  revolutionizing physics or making a quilt, you must display
  your differences to make a difference.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Differences, Making A Difference

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• Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Renown, Mattresses

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