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Quotes About Weaving

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.
~ Martha Ostenso
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
~ Martha Graham
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.
~ Martin Prechtel
Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.
~ Eugene McCarthy
Patience to the spider
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life is a loom, weaving illusion.
~ Vachel Lindsay
Weaving olden dances; mingling hands and mingling glances.
~ William Butler Yeats
Most talented with a God given talent for weaving words of heartfelt wonder.
~ Grange Lady Haig Rutan
God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
~ Marge Piercy
each side of the saddle, all in wickerwork but
~ Jane Gardam
spider crawls along his back, and other intricately woven lines join them all together.
~ Jane Henry
We who work in fantasy today take the threads from all the story tellers of the past. From the ancient, many colored threads we work to weave a new cloth. If the landscape, the characters, and the creatures here call up the old tales told the beside the fire, when stories went from mouth to ear instead of page to eye then I have woven well and the dreamer continues to dream.
~ Janet Lee Carey
Their interactions are like passing a shuttle of yarn back and forth, weaving a connection between their hearts.
~ Jasmin Lee Cori
How could he relax his guard when beams of neurotic energy, like searchlights weaving about a prison compound, allowed no thought to escape, no remark to go unchecked.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.
~ Alexander Pope
De todos modos el destino había empezado a armar su trama, a tejer su intriga, a anudar en un punto los hilos sueltos de aquello que los antiguos griegos han llamado el muthos.
~ Ricardo Piglia
You never know!" Neith snapped. "The point is, I'll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the land!" She jabbed a finger at me. "Did you know the palm tree has six different edible parts?" "Um—" "And I'll never be bored," Neith continued, "since I'm also the goddess of weaving. I have enough twine for a millennium of macramé!" I had no reply, as I wasn't sure what macramé was.
~ Rick Riordan
But aren't all of us like a fine weaving? The pattern the world sees often hides the threads." Tess
~ Kate Elliott
Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along.
~ William R. Matthews
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun,And the free maids that weave their thread with bones,Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,And dallies with the innocence of love,Like the old age.
~ William Shakespeare
I was impressed by the delicate weaving of the numbers. No matter how carefully you unraveled a thread, a single moment of inattention could leave you stranded, with no clue what to do next. In all his years of study, the Professor had managed to glimpse several pieces of the lace. I could only hope that some part of him remembered the exquisite pattern.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, Even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, Even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, Even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
~ David Michie