Quotes About Shoemaking

I sew my own shoes - I don't trust anyone else to sew the ribbons exactly how I like them.

The Bootmakers of Toronto, copyright © 2006 by Edward D. Hoch.

Then pointing to Edwin's shoes, he said: "Those look skilfully crafted. Did you make them yourself?" "Master Baldwin made them for me. The most skilled shoemaker in the village

Miss Gillian Cobbler, thank you for your help once again in keeping evil at bay. Flora has told us of your father's shoemaking woes. Because of that, we would like to commission all glass slippers for the royal palace from his shop from now on. —Princess Ella

Grandpa Keith made shoes for Adam Faith and George Best. I was dazzled by such people. As a teenager, I was haunted by the idea of people living glamorously beyond my provincial horizons.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

All my family worked for Puma. My mother worked there, and my father was the guy that opened and closed up in the evening. We lived in the neighbouring building - just a couple of steps, and I would be in the Puma factory. All 300 people that worked there knew me; it was my adventure playground. I knew everything, even how to make a shoe sole.

I come from a family with a long tradition in shoemaking, and I still live in a region famous for its shoemakers. It is getting harder and harder to find skilled workers. There are no professional training institutes, so we have to train our own employees. And an apprenticeship takes three years.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

A jeweler could meditate by envisioning that everything is as pure and radiant as shimmering gold; a winemaker might picture herself as distilling bliss from the grapes of experience; a shoemaker could imagine that he was sewing the leather of passion with the thread of freedom to produce shoes of enlightenment.