Woven Quotes - Page 13

• To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Ignorance, Political

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1962). “Brutus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

  Jean Shepherd

  Space, Lakes, Michigan

  Jean Shepherd (2010). “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash”, p.118, Broadway Books

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• The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Beautiful, Animal, Exciting

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• The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.

  Howard Thurman

  Memories, Dark, Years

  Howard Thurman (1981). “With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Dark, Together

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.197, A&C Black

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• Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves.

  Frederic Farrar

  Honesty, Kindness, Self

  Frederic William Farrar (1877). “"In the Days of Thy Youth.": Sermons on Practical Subjects, Preached at Marlborough College, from 1871-1876”, p.19

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• America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Country, Fate

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.590, Vintage

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• Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• Your approval before God is woven into the life and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, not what other men and women think about you.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

  Matt Chandler, Josh Patterson, Eric Geiger (2012). “Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church”, p.28, B&H Publishing Group

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• The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed of cells, as any tissue is. They are, to be sure, highly specialized cells, but they function according to the laws that govern any other cells. Their electrical and chemical signals can be detected, recorded and interpreted and their chemicals can be identified; the connections that constitute the brain's woven feltwork can be mapped. In short, the brain can be studied, just as the kidney can.

  David H. Hubel

  Law, Cells, Brain

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• I am not somebody who just likes to run. I am a runner. This is the difference between a pastime and a passion. I like to play golf, but I am not a golfer. I like to cook, but I am not a chef. I don't just like to run. I am a runner. It is a passion. It is part of who I am and is woven into the fabric of my personality, character, and psyche.

  Adam Goucher

  Running, Passion, Character

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• Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.

  Ajahn Chah

  Heart, Feelings, Mind

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• Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite, nonphysical plane. My only task is to expand my earthly self enough to let it into this realm. So if there's something I desire, the idea isn't to go out and get it, but to expand my own consciousness to allow universal energy to bring it into my reality here.

  Anita Moorjani

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.161, Hay House, Inc

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