Woven Quotes

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. (Pericles)
Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights. View quote
Francois de Malherbe
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. View quote
Margaret Mead
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. View quote
Carson McCullers
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. View quote
Chief Seattle
The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. View quote
Pericles
Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger. View quote
Brad Henry
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world. View quote
Louis Agassiz
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them. (George Eliot)
What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads. View quote
Robert Jordan
Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage. The tapestries have various fates: Most burn or unravel in the footsteps of time and the fires of later discovery. But their glory lies in their integrity as unified structures of great complexity and broad implication. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. View quote
Anaïs Nin
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 is not prophecy, but description. View quote
Ralph Ellison
There is intersubjectivity woven into the very fabric of the Kosmos at all levels. View quote
Ken Wilber
The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. View quote
William Blake
This is Reagan country, and perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and interlinked to the Golden State. View quote
Sarah Palin
Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole. View quote
Joe Biden
What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear? View quote
Rick Riordan
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner. View quote
Ruta Sepetys