“By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.” PastDrawsThreadNeedles Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.” IfsMadePastTimeThreadWarpFuture Time Book:A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.” PeopleWantedPastRememberOrderNamesRelevantThreadVeteranRemembering The PastThreads Of LifeAlphabetical Order Author:Maya Lin
“A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.” MenWorldYearsEarthPastTimeOrderHoursSleepBrokenCirclesThreadArousalTimes Past Author:Marcel Proust