Sewed Quotes

#1. My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take.

Jerry Hall

#2. I used to think I sewed us together at the edges with my own hands, pulled the stitches tight and I could unpick them any time I wanted. Now I think it always ran deeper than that and farther, underground; out of sight and way beyond my control.

Tana French

#3. We were once the ones who were living, and then we were the ones who were dying. We sewed ourselves, a thread's width, into your history.

David Levithan

#4. I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I've also sewed little hearts on some of my sleeves which I've done for years because I always wear my heart on my sleeve so if you see a little embroidered heart on my clothes, that's why!

Jessica Brown Findlay

#5. Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

Dolly Parton

#6. One morning she sewed while her son and husband watched television. It was so quiet that when her son released a tremendous fart, a mouse, startled from his hiding place beneath my aunt's sewing chair, ran straight up her pant leg.

Sherman Alexie

#7. Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

Camryn Manheim

#8. At home, I had seven brothers, one sister. I sewed clothes for my sister's dolls although she was grown and gone away. I was a weirdo but didn't think I was a weirdo.

Philip Treacy

#9. She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

May Sinclair

#10. When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.

M.I.A.

#11. If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

Mickey Gilley

#12. I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

Anne Ellis

#13. Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

Leslie Jamison

#14. We are wearing Karma everyday..sewed by our past nor yesterday

Jaycynth

#15. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Catherynne M Valente

#16. There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

John Vianney

#17. The shape she loved was a triangle. Always black. Mauma put black triangles on about every quilt she sewed.

Sue Monk Kidd

#18. Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

Rick Riordan

#19. In some hotels they give you a little sewing kit. You know what I do? I sew the towels together. One time I sewed a button on a lampshade. I like to leave a mark.

George Carlin

#20. They spoke from a distant past when everyone read books and most people had hobbies, made things, played cards and chess, dressed up and played charades, sewed and painted and wrote letters and sent postcards.

Ruth Rendell

#21. The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

Greg Gutfeld

#22. Often, when I sewed, I would slip into a meditative state, almost as if I'd become one with the fabric and thread. At these times, I felt a kind of release that was almost like happiness.

Gioia Diliberto

#23. My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.

John Lasseter

#24. 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

#25. We'd cry great waves of love and rage for this young woman, whose resistance made our own lives look empty as nadless ball sacks and sewed-up dry cunts, a girl-woman whose body was in defiance of over stab at "living" we took and failed on a daily basis.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#26. I love the smell of you. Sea air, leather, and your skin...all of you." She sewed soft kisses over his chest, inching toward the hollow at the base of his neck. "You'll never be free of me."
His arms tightened like manacles, squeezing her closer. "Never have I wanted to be free of you.

Gina Conkle

#27. I was not good
to the last person I loved
so I punished my heart
(I let it bleed out
then roughly sewed it back together)

Clementine Von Radics

#28. Once there was a seamstress who could weave fabric from feeling. She sewed gowns of delight: sheer, sparkling, sleek. She cut cloth out of ambition and ardor, idyll and industry.

Marie Rutkoski

#29. The sofa was lumpy enough to have had a body sewed into it; stuffing spilled out of the arms where the victim had tried to escape.

Christopher Moore

#30. How does one conquer fear, Don B.?" "One takes a frog and sews it to one's shoe," he said. "The left or the right?" Don B. gave me a pitying look. "Well, you'd look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn't you?" he said. "One frog on each shoe.

Donald Barthelme