Skein Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
— Henry Adams
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Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other’s ambit, they bind themselves tight…
— Jo Baker
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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
— Aldo Leopold
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The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a…
— Ezra Pound
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And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.
— Edith Pattou
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There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of varying degrees of…
— Karen Marie Moning
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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is…
— John Henry Newman
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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy…
— Charlotte Bronte
Who Wrote These Skein Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Skein Quotes as follows: