Sew Up Quotes

#1. Broken people give broken love. And we are all a little broken. You just have to forgive and sew up the wounds love delivers, and move on.

Tarryn Fisher

#2. Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

Caroline Knapp

#3. But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.

Vanessa Veselka

#4. I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

George W. Bush

#5. David's was the first face I saw when I woke up from the surgery to sew up my leg." Eve made a face. "It was like a bad rerun. His face is always the first one I see when I wake up from an attack by a homicidal lunatic.

Karen Rose

#6. There may be better men than me in Kanbal, but I doubt there are any who will sew up your wounds for free.

Nahoko Uehashi

#7. An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

Rick Perlstein

#8. I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

Jeremy Piven

#9. When they ask me why I jumped off the roof of my brother's apartment building, I will tell them it was because I wanted the sky to mourn me.

And because I wanted to know what it feels like to hit something so hard it shatters me into bits that they can never sew back together.

Kady Hunt

#10. I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

Tim Conway

#11. I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.

Patrick O'Brian

#12. I don't want to sew.
How else will the buttons get onto the coat?

Diane Samuels

#13. I had always been proud of my mom. So she'd never back cookies, or sew a Halloween costume, but she could fight monsters. She was tough and smart, and maybe she didn't read bedtime stories, but she had taught me to defend myself against the things that lurked under beds.

Rachel Hawkins

#14. Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things.

Dita Von Teese

#15. Kiriwar: "It doesn't matter. Bitro's gonna sew your eyebrows to your eyelids when we get back."
Gunzi: "Whaaat?! Then I won't be able to sleep!!"
Kiriwar: "That's the idea, dumbass.

Suguro Chayamachi

#16. I came from rainbow fabric; I drank textile ink as mothers' milk. I learned to sew before I could walk. I could never become a nun, purely because of the boring fashion choices.

Pepper Winters

#17. North of Hardanger the children would run naked in warm rains like these. We don't sew our bearskins on until the sea starts to freeze,' he said.
I nearly hit him.

Mark Lawrence

#18. Put a gun in a young man's hands and call him a soldier. Doesn't make him a killer. Sew a stripe on his arm, a ribbon on his chest. Doesn't make him soulless.

Rio Youers

#19. I've been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license.

Sara Quin

#20. I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn't creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager.

Brit Morin

#21. Xander stood at the end of the bed, hands on hips, the jacket she'd helped him sew thrown open, a gold-threaded waistcoat glimmering underneath. He was the Regency hero today, but she didn't feel like being saved.

Danika Stone

#22. Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.

Ellen Swallow Richards

#23. When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

Vivienne Westwood

#24. My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember.

Serena Williams

#25. When I sew you up ...
Don't let me,
Stop bleeding,
Tiny stitches that you placed into my skin,
Won't let me go,
And they're ruining the mood.

Pierce The Veil

#26. I'm feeling pretty motivated," Dylan said. "Cuz the sooner you leave, the sooner Alec and I can get back to that sex swing."
Tyler paused in the midst of picking up the remaining boxes. "Alex doesn't have a sew swing."
The grin that hijacked Dylan's face was huge. "He does now.

River Jaymes

#27. Once you had your man, you let all your accomplishments go. You don't sew or sing any more, you haven't illuminated a manuscript in years - and

Peter S. Beagle

#28. I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

Fran Drescher

#29. The metaphor I've used is ... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.

Randy Pausch

#30. I had to learn to sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.

L'Wren Scott

#31. Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

Becki Newton

#32. Ou always have to choose between the path of needles and the path of pins. When a dress is torn, you know, you can just pin it up, or you can take the time to sew it together. That's what it means. The quick and easy way or the painful way that works.

Rosamund Hodge

#33. When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

Sara Blakely

#34. I'm worried that the audience is being conditioned. That's my real fear. Because if they don't want to see wrinkles on the screen, if they actually fear looking at them, then it's only going to get worse. Those of us who don't want to shoot up and cut and sew, we're just not going be cast.

Robin Wright

#35. I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

Adrienne Rich

#36. The way I grew up, everyone knew how to cook, sew ... carpentry.

Shea Hembrey

#37. My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.

Becky G

#38. To read and write will help you understand life ... to sew and mend will help you survive it.

Gail Tsukiyama

#39. Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket

Charles Simic

#40. Miles above the Earth we know , Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light.

Philip Jose Farmer

#41. In nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem.
In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

Jodi Picoult

#42. A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#43. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing.

Scott Lynch

#44. Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

James David Barber

#45. I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own.

Moran Atias

#46. Which god ruled your nameyear?"
"Sewing."
She squinted, then laughed.
He smiled a little, yet said, "You shouldn't laugh."
She laughed harder.
"Actually, I sew quite well.

Marie Rutkoski

#47. I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

#48. You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions, or dragons, or eagles.

George R R Martin

#49. There wasn't enough fabric in her shirt to sew together a pair of panties.

Ella Summers

#50. I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.

Nick Nolte

#51. I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut
My weakness is that I care too much
And my scars remind me that the past is real
I tear my heart open just to feel

Papa Roach

#52. 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

#53. A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it

Michael Ondaatje

#54. One thing Valek did know how to do - sew. The other assassins hadn't called him the King Knitter for nothing.

Maria V. Snyder

#55. Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut.

Chuck Palahniuk

#56. You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.

Robert Fulghum

#57. Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

Joan Of Arc

#58. Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.

Charles Bukowski

#59. Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.

Anthony Liccione

#60. I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better.

Betsey Johnson

#61. Yes, I do sew. I started when I was around 8 or 9 and have been doing it off and on since then.

Ann Packer

#62. You ought to sue."
"I don't know how to sew. I tried it once and I almost put my eye out."
If there is one thing Sahara Soto and Kerry Thompson have in common, it's their complete idiocy. In the girl's case, it's endearing.

Rose Christo

#63. I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do it that way.

David Hallberg

#64. Fashion it's not just about learning how to draw pretty pictures, and how to sew, it's everything that makes up your life.

Tim Gunn

#65. Because they don't want to be perfect, because only God is perfect, Indian people sew flaws into their powwow regalia. My family always sewed one yellow bead somewhere on our regalia. But we always hid it so that you had to search really hard to find it.

Sherman Alexie

#66. No matter how many times I break...I will repair.

No matter how many times I tear...I will sew."

-From "Towards Peace in a More Natural Order

Isabel Marcheselli

#67. Yeah, probably. Homicide: Our day starts when yours ends. Permanently." "You should sew that on a pillow.

J.D. Robb

#68. Money is God's seed and Christians should learn how to properly sew it.

Sunday Adelaja

#69. Let's escape outside," Isabelle suggested. "Do you have any other talents?"
"I bake and garden."
"Do you sew, too?"
Amber nodded. "I sew whenever anger incites me to mutilation."
Isabelle laughed. "One cannot hang for attacking a piece of cloth.

Patricia Grasso

#70. Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

Andy Van Slyke

#71. To become straight, you have to transform your cock into a phallus, that well-washed instrument of power The asshole can remain dirty, but you've got to sew it up, forget the half of the penis that joins it, favor external part and confine orgasm to that part

Tony Duvert

#72. Just how many times are you going to make me sew you back together again?

Nahoko Uehashi

#73. Hey, corpse-breath, why don't you do everyone a favor and sew your lips shut? It'll match the rest of your face AND be an improvement. - Puck

Julie Kagawa

#74. You really will reap what you sew.

Tyler Perry

#75. Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#76. I have invited our little seamstress to take her thread and needle and sew our two mouths together.

Harry Crosby