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The whole quilt is much more important than any single square. -- Rohinton Mistry
Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt. -- Dennis Miller
The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt. -- Dennis Miller
I can remember when pants were pants. You wore them for twenty years, then you cut them down for pan scrubs. Or quilts. -- Victoria Wood
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. -- Faith Ringgold
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. -- Charles Bukowski
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. -- Jesse Jackson
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
Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats. -- Joel Miller
After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on. -- Sandra Dallas
The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt. -- Jesse Jackson
Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water. -- Dante Alighieri
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again. -- Lewis Carroll
Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera. -- Lewis Mumford
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. -- Phylicia Rashad
I think our lives are connected by threads. We're weaving our own quilts as we go along and it has been my experience that there are so many threads that connect people. Invisible threads, strong threads, sparkling threads, but I think there is so much interconnectivity between people and I acknowledge that and I see it all the time. I think some of that is divine. -- Kathy Garver
Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable. -- Yao Ming
Quitting on one's dreams isn't a way out, because all it does is to bring forth some sufferings and quilts in one's life. -- Edmond Mbiaka
We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand. -- Anne Lamott
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! -- Angela Kinsey
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one. -- Roberta Smith
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 -- Samuel Johnson
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
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. -- Jennifer Chiaverini

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