A Quilter Quotes

#1. I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.

Rich Mullins

#2. Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don't do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.

Kirby Larson

#3. 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

#4. The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#5. I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

Billy Graham

#6. When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#7. He smiled again. I kept staring. Then I said, "My name is Tillary Quilter."
"You called. We have an appointment. I'm a trained investigator, so I figured that one out.

Shelly Reuben

#8. This is one reason people need to believe in God - because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

Tim Kreider

#9. How does worship, or education, or community interaction form the kind of character that actually does what Jesus calls for - become actively engaged in being a peacemaker?

Glen H. Stassen

#10. Everyday is an adventure to write about-----

Mschell

#11. Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

Garrison Keillor

#12. The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

Moliere

#13. Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared ... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

William S. Wilson

#14. Life is to short not to be happy.

Jeny Quilter

#15. Check your pockets, my chimney-child.

Catherynne M Valente

#16. Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

Sandra Dallas

#17. The body is precious and the body is always going to speak through its own capacity for communication and love.

Dolores Hart

#18. Those are fools however learned
Who have not learned to walk with the world.

Thiruvalluvar

#19. Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in the light of our intentions, which are invisible to others, while we see others mainly in the light of their actions, which are all that's visible to us, we have a situation in which misunderstanding and injustice are the order of the day.

John G. Bennett

#20. We're all frightened. We go through life like little children. Every single one of us pretending to be an adult. All you can really do is find someone to be with who's less scared than you are.

Peter Quilter

#21. I know that I am not always right to the perception of some, but I am not daunted of being wrong. That's the effectiveness of confidence.

Lionel Suggs