#weaving

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#duty #effect #false #life-time #loom

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#background #came #deeper #earth #effect

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#books #deception #fiction #lies #novels

One false step, and you’ll fall all the way to Tartarus—and believe me, unlike the Doors of Death, this would be a one-way trip, a very hard fall! I will not have you dying before you tell me your plan for my artwork. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#arachne #artwork #death #doors-of-death #heroes-of-olympus

Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me. ↗

— Tracy Chevalier

#tapestry #weaving #marriage

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#down #life #loom #morning #never

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#ancient #arts #crete #discovery #europe

If you had told me when I was starting out that I would be coming down to Nashville, kind of weaving in and out of the country scene, I never would've thought that in a million years. ↗

— Kid Rock

#country #down #had #i #kind

I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics. ↗

— Aarti Sequeira

#classics #comfortable #flavors #i #indian

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#cat #chasing #get #him #hope