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You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from. -- Buddy Wakefield
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. -- Barack Obama
I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork. -- Sara Zarr
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt. -- Lucille Ball
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. -- Michel de Montaigne
It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren. -- Elizabeth May
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus. -- Anne Lamott
London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion. -- Joseph Fort Newton
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Robin Sloan
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner. -- Charles Dickens
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. -- Jesse Owens
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others -- Pascal Mercier
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. -- Alice Sebold
My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination. -- Susan Wiggs
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all. -- Malcolm Gladwell
In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family). -- Kenneth Keniston
When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps. -- Alan Brennert
We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management, .. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001. -- Scott McClellan
Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality - collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. From the tiny impressions gleaned from one another, they created a sense of belonging and tried to make do with the way they found each other. -- Toni Morrison
Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely. -- Neil Gaiman
It's actually kind of nice to have a 'patchwork family.' -- Heidi
Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things. -- Robert Reynolds
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies. -- John Dewey
Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see. -- Cammie McGovern
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A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws. -- Nina Easton

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