“With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread—
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the “Song of the Shirt.””

“I took her from rags right through to stitches,
Oh baby, tonight we sleep in separate ditches.”

“A stitch in five saves fifteen or whatever - Another re-evaluation by Karl of the phrase 'A stitch in time saves nine”

“6291. A Stitch in Time
May save nine.”

“Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.”

“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ”

“You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”

“Hugh should’ve brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold.”

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

“Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”