These thread quotes will inspire you. Thread, a thin fine cord formed by spinning and twisting short fibers into a continuous strand or a long, thin strand of cotton, nylon, or other fibers used in sewing or weaving.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging thread quotes, thread sayings, and thread proverbs.
Best Thread Quotes
- “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.” ~ Chief Seattle
- “A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.” ~ George Herbert
- “Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” ~ Richard P. Feynman , Weaving thread quotes
- “Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.” ~ David Levithan
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“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “All things are bound together. All things connect.” ~ Chief Seattle
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“The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.” ~ Jacqueline Carey
- “Invisible threads are the strongest ties.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche , Invisible thread quotes
- “It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn’t seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.” ~ Maria von Trapp
- “Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millennia away.” ~ Daniel Taylor
- “The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.” ~ Orson Scott Card
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“Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.” ~ Laozi - “On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.” ~ Alexandre Dumas
- “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
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“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.” ~ Horace Mann
- “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.” ~ John Templeton
- “A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn’t think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
- “Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.” ~ Fred Rogers
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“Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” ~ W. S. Merwin
- “A red map isn’t easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you’ve forgotten.” ~ Alice Hoffman
- “The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.” ~ Anais Nin
- “America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.” ~ Jesse Jackson
- “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” ~ Henry Melvill
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“The thread breakes, where it is weakest.” ~ George Herbert
- “I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.” ~ Marissa Mayer
- “The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child’s kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.” ~ Laurence Sterne
- “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”” ~ Isaac Asimov
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“No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.” ~ Robert Burton
- “So, it was really important that I go do the necessary research. In doing the research, I spent time with a lot of medics and women down at Fort Bliss. I went through an intensive medical course there, with other medics. And then, I really sat down with all of the women that had been deployed, or were getting ready to deploy again. The common thread for them was family, and what a struggle it was for them to come home and face their children and flip a switch.” ~ Michelle Monaghan
- “He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you’ve automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.” ~ Mike Godwin
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“Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.” ~ Zelda Popkin
- “The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.” ~ Eudora Welty
- “No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold.” ~ Christopher Pearse Cranch
- “Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.” ~ Mikhail Gorbachev , Broken thread quotes
- “Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.” ~ James Hastings
- “America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.” ~ Jesse Jackson
- “Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.” ~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti - “Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.” ~ Scott Sanders
- “First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.” ~ A. I. Bezzerides
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“Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.” ~ Kathleen Tessaro
- “We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.” ~ Mata Amritanandamayi
- “A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we do when we speak or write, is somehow to capture it, thus making it one’s own. But with this appropriation comes the realization that we have denied the immediacy of reality and that in creating a substitute we have but spun another thread in the web of our grand illusion.” ~ Heinz Pagels
- “The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.” ~ Richard Paul Evans
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“Life is a thread that someone entangled.” ~ Fernando Pessoa
- “A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying things, Like crumbs of thoughts and bits of smiles And specks of dried-up tears, And dust of dreams that catch and cling For years and years and years…” ~ Shel Silverstein
- “Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.” ~ Sarah Josepha Hale
- “And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn’d to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.” ~ Walt Whitman
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“We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.” ~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- “We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.” ~ Sandra Day O’Connor
- “I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one’s life.” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe
- “Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native-born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.” ~ Wendell Willkie
- “I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart – so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went into her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn’t lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn’t have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn’t have kissed her, without wanting to save her.” ~ Sarah Waters
