Sew Quotes
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Miles above the Earth we know, Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light.
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"Very astonishing indeed! strange thing!" (Turning the Dumpling round, rejoined the King), "'Tis most extraordinary, then, all this is; It beats Penetti's conjuring all to pieces; Strange I should never of a Dumpling dream! But, Goody, tell me where, where, where's the Seam?" "Sire, there's no Seam," quoth she; "I never knew That folks did Apple-Dumplings sew." "No!" cried the staring Monarch with a grin; "How, how the devil got the Apple in?"
john wolcot— The Apple Dumplings and a King
Asked if in her youth she had learned any craft, she said yes, to sew and spin: and in sewing and spinning, she feared no woman in Rouen.
— Joan of Arc, Court record, (1429). Quoted in Wilfred Phillips Barrett, Thomas de Courcelles, Guillaume Manchon, Pierre Cauchon, Pierre Champion. The Trial of Jeanne D'Arc, Page 43, Gotham House. (1932)
Miles above the Earth we know, Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light.
philip josé farmer— "Imagination" in America Sings (1949)
Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.
— Heywood Broun, in Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately (2012), p.310
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW SO sew SO-SO/GREETINGS CHEESE POPSICLE/THE NUMBER YOU HAVE DIALED/IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PORK CHOPS/FROM EAST TO WEST IT GOES GOES/BROKEN BROKEN/OH SO SOW sew BROKEN/*whir* *clank* *clunk*
— Who: Lil' Miss Marshmallow
— Note: Character is defeated by Lucas and his friends while they are on the way to the top of the Tower of Thunder to try to steal a Friend's Yo-Yo. She collapses and spouts out these random and non sequitur words before exploding in a mushroom cloud.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Simone Signoret— Famous French actress
Thus use your frog...Put your hook through his mouth, and out at his gills;...and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming-wire of your hook; or tie the frog's leg, above the upper joint, to the armed-wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.
Izaak Walton— Part I, ch. 8.
