Quilts Quotes
Quilts Quote of the day
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.
The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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!
Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things.
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.
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.
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.
I can remember when pants were pants. You wore them for twenty years, then you cut them down for pan scrubs. Or quilts.
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.
Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!
Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.
If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.
My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground ... very large white pillows.
I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.
You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.
When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown
People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.
I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.
