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. — Cicely Tyson
The whole quilt is much more important than any single square. — Rohinton Mistry
Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern. — Dawn Powell
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified. — Marthe Bibesco
The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos. — Hayao Miyazaki
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
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end. — Alice Paul
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. — William Stafford
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel. — Hans Hofmann
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. — Angela Carter
Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table. — Ingrid Trobisch
The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work. — Karl Lagerfeld
Short Patchwork Quotes
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. — Barack Obama
You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from. — Buddy Wakefield
People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. — Jesse Owens
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. — Michel de Montaigne
It's actually kind of nice to have a 'patchwork family.' — Heidi
The patchwork nature of the forms are a reflection of sexuality itself. — Claire Dederer
Patchwork Quilt Quotes
Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt. — Lucille Ball
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
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
People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. 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
Patches Quotes
God does not patch up the old life,
or make certain repairs on the old life;
He gives a new life, through the new birth. — Kathryn Kuhlman
It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch. — Ida B. Wells
I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly. — Erma Bombeck
Where are all the sour patch parents? — Bo Burnham
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. — Beatrix Potter
I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes." I heard the smile in his voice. "You want me bad. — Becca Fitzpatrick
The sun never sets on a Hells Angels' patch. — Sonny Barger
We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential. — Ellen Goodman
But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you. — Becca Fitzpatrick
There is a very quickly growing hot pot patchwork of AI-powered tools for all of image, video, audio generation, upsampling, post-processing, control-netting, voice cloning, lip syncing, etc etc. — Andrej Karpathy
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren. — Elizabeth May
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 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
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
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
It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living. — Paramahansa Yogananda
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
If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change, and a patchwork of jurisdictions that have not. These various policies reflect the politics of each jurisdiction and the values of its citizens. — Dale Jamieson
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 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
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
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies. — John Dewey
We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do. — David Axelrod
Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war. — P. J. O'Rourke
When you look at how American national freight systems are connected, it's a bit of a patchwork. When you look at how even road systems and rail systems work across state lines, it's a bit of a patchwork. — Anthony Foxx
I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork. — Sara Zarr
Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone. — Vita Sackville-West
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
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
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
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