35 Fabric Quotes

Why fabric quotes?

Fabric refers to the sheets of woven fibers that are tailored into different clothing, curtains, and covers. The term ‘fabric’ is also used to refer to the underlying structure of any material or concept.

Fabric is the collective of all the connected particles, functions, and ideas that form a singular concept, object, or medium. As such, the term has immense utility in being used as an alternative for explaining complex and abstract ideas without stating their inner workings.

As different types of woven fibers, fabrics are a core raw material for running the fashion and textile industries. Using the word ‘fabric’ as a metaphor makes it easier to communicate complex concepts to a regular audience.

You can find a vast collection of fabric quotes given below. Reading the quotes can provide insight into the material's significance in the world of fashion and its use for expressing different ideas.

What parents should know

• The workers who tirelessly farm and grow plants for natural fibers used in making fabrics have one of the lowest-paying jobs. 
• Most synthetic polyesters are non-biodegradable, and nylon is a petroleum derivate. Both these materials are predominantly used for making clothes.
• Weaving fabrics has been a traditional occupation in several countries, with the initial practice of hand-weaving fabrics being considered art. 

What to discuss with kids

• You can figure out many smart ways to implement the word ‘fabric’ or communicate ideas that you come up with.
• Everything in the universe, no matter how big or small exists in the ‘fabric of space and time’. 
• Cloth fabrics can be made of natural fibers of cotton, wool, or silk. Common synthetic fibers used for making fabrics are nylon and polyester.

Popular Fabric Quotes

(The term ‘fabric’ refers to the material or fibers used to make any cloth. Keep on reading to know about other uses of the term.)

1. “Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.” - Terry Pratchett

2. “Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety, and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very makeup as a human family.” - Ban Ki-Moon

3. “Fashion is about change. It's fun to to keep changing and to change the silhouettes, to change the fabrics and to change the color.” - Calvin Klein

4. “The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.” - Julie Christie

5. “One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.” - Henry Miller

6. “The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate.” - Neil Simon

7. “But tomorrow came faster than expected as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction that could never be new again.” - Mark Z. Danielewski

8. “You get racism crossing the street; it’s in the very fabric of American society.” - Nina Simone

9. “You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.” - Marc Jacobs

10. “My mom used to sell fabric and lace when I was younger. She would bring back these elaborate fabrics from Nigeria. I always enjoyed being around it.” - Tinie Tempah

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11. “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” - Richard P. Feynman

12. “Failure is the fabric that discovery is made from.” - Steven Magee

13. "You meet people and you think they're going to be really important in your life and then they end up not being, but the fabric softener is always there for you." - John Mulaney

14. “Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.” - Robert Lee Fulghum

15. “The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.” - Charles Ives

16. “Thoughts are the threads that weave the fabric of your mindset.” - Hrishikesh Agnihotri

17. "The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial." - Dov Davidoff

Excellent Fabric Quotes

18. “Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.” - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

19. "Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remain unshaken." - Chester A. Arthur

20. “Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.” - Lord Mountbatten

21. "We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding." - David Bohm

22. "Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history." - Simone Weil 

23. “What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!” - Anatole France

24. “When I’m back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.” - Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun/ WizKid

25. "Life is all about taking decisions, the precision or vagueness of which has an effect on the texture of our existence, our moral fabric and the rational side of our persona." - Dr. Prem Jagyasi

26. “I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of my fabric of me, even though I left when I was quite young.” - Samantha Newark

27. “We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.” - Joseph Chilton Pearce

Inspirational Fabric Quotes

28. “There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mother's clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.” - Azzedine Alaia

29. “When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.” - Geoffrey Beene

30. “People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.” - Andrew Henry Vachss 

31. “Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.” - Philip Lang Crosby

32. “The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.” - William Faulkner

33. “It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of color.” - Hubert de Givenchy

34. “As a kid, I used to come to our offices and play under the desks of people I now work with, or who work for me. I would come in and play with fabrics and make little clothes for my Snoopy. People here feel like family.” - David Lauren

35. “A piece of fabric and get me going.” - Anna Sui

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