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Dr. F.

Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« on: September 02, 2018, 06:19:13 pm »
All,

I need some advice.

Many, many years ago, I completed a cross-stitch sampler frame. I finished it the year I graduated high school, and was going to do a sampler for that. The lettering never happened. I have since completed a B.A., M.S., and Ph.D., so commemorating high school no longer seems relevant. The blank frame has been on my wall since, but I recently had an urge to go ahead and finish the silly thing completely, after 30-some years. This was my first, completed, large cross-stitch project. I've finished many others since.

Except, I have no idea what to put in the center. I've never married, so I can't make it a wedding sampler. I'm thinking some sort of pithy nature-related quote? I can find a good cross-stitch alphabet, heck, I've designed more than one cross-stitch font. I just need to decide on words.

I'm going to try to attach a photo of what I'm talking about.

OK, getting the file small enough is making me insane. Suggestions?
« Last Edit: September 02, 2018, 06:26:14 pm by Dr. F. »

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Pandorica

Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2018, 06:29:48 pm »
You could always put all of your graduation dates on there, with small graduation themed pictures or the logos of the schools.
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Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2018, 08:01:23 pm »
Very pretty! But sorry I have no pithy quotes. Heck, it took me 20 years to come up with quotes, pithy or otherwise, for my quote quilt. And what finally occurred to me, and worked really well, was quotes about sleeping! Don't think that will work for you.

Pandorica

Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2018, 08:19:27 pm »
I was googling nature quotes, there are a few sites that have aggregated a lot of them. https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/nature

I like this one from Emerson "The earth laughs in flowers"

Or Wordsworth "Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher"

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Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2018, 08:22:04 pm »
And there's bunch on goodreads as well https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/nature

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Dr. F.

Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2018, 08:30:30 pm »
And there's bunch on goodreads as well https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/nature

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Oooh. I like the Emerson line! I'll have to try a layout with that.

Thank You!
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Hanna

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« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2018, 09:17:06 pm »
I love the Emerson one, also! It made me smile!
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Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2018, 06:51:12 am »
If you wanted to be really meta, you could just put "I NEVER GOT ROUND TO STITCHING THIS SAMPLER".  ;)
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Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2018, 08:14:01 am »
This one is not mine but it's hanging on my wall:

Sitting here tonight
By the fire light
Reminds me I already have
More than I should
I don't need fame
No one to know my name
At the end of the day
Lord I pray
I have a life that's good

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Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2018, 03:11:41 pm »
And there's bunch on goodreads as well https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/nature

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

I have to figure out how to put this one somewhere in my house. Maybe it would help my demeanor when it's below zero in January.  ;D

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Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2018, 03:42:23 pm »
"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another." - Helen Keller

Lexophile

Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2019, 11:46:06 am »
Just want to say what beautiful work! I love the pattern!

My favorite quote is: "You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving." I like some of the other suggestions better though.  ;D
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Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2019, 08:31:26 pm »
“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” - Lucille Ball

“Done is better than perfect.” - Sheryl Sandberg

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”
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“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”
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Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #13 on: October 23, 2019, 08:15:18 am »
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Re: Advice needed - I need a pithy quote
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2019, 09:15:18 am »
The sampler is beautiful.
Given the original intent, how about something like:
“NEVER GIVE UP ON A DREAM JUST BECAUSE OF THE TIME IT WILL TAKE TO ACCOMPLISH IT. THE TIME WILL PASS ANYWAY.” –EARL NIGHTINGALE

Then maybe put the years of each of your degrees.
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