Quotes About Knitters

#1. I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#2. The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#3. In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments.
The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#4. Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#5. It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#6. The larger part of the 50,000 English stocking knitters and their families did not fully emerge from the hunger and misery entailed by the introduction of the machine for the next forty years.

Henry Hazlitt

#7. I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#8. Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

Beth Ditto

#9. Watch out, knitters have balls....

Penny Reid

#10. Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#11. It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#12. There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#13. Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.

Pliny The Elder

#14. And Habermas: mutual understanding in unrestrained communicative action unfolded by rationality is the omega point of individual and social evolution itself.

Ken Wilber

#15. Have I finally convinced you that it's always best to be who you are?

Miranda Hart

#16. The best companion and helper is admirable morals.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#17. It's really nice that the truth can finally come out.

Vince Vaughn

#18. Ask what you would teach if you were in charge of the school system. There is no excuse to be passive and let your education slip past you. Take those important topics and learn them for yourself. Be

I.C. Robledo

#19. We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly.

Sakyong Mipham

#20. Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust in one another. It's home. You belong and are accepted, which rings true no matter where you are.

Clara Parkes