Katharine Clifton: I'm impressed you can sew. Almásy: Good. Katharine Clifton: You sew very badly. Almásy: Well, you don't sew at all. Katharine Clifton: A woman should never learn to sew, and if she can she shouldn't admit to it.
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.
The needle is small, but it sews expensive garments.
Men must sew up tears with gentleness.
You can't sew buttons on your neighbor's mouth.
She was sewing together the little proofs of his devotion out of which to make a garment for her tattered love and faith. He cut into the faith with negligent scissors, and she mended and sewed and rewove and patched. He wasted, and threw away, and c...
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.
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.
I couldn't sew on a day like this. There's something in the air that gets in the blood and makes a sort of glory in my soul. My fingers would twitch and I'd sew a crooked seam. So it's ho for the park and the pines.
For a long time, I was trapped in this struggle with my emotions about the single person in the world who was my family.
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.
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 good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.
I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.
When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
