Loomed Potholders Quotes & Sayings

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her. — James Weldon Johnson

Desire changes its character by 180 degrees. Often, when first aroused, it is felt as the desire to have. The desire to touch is, partly, the desire to lay hands on, to take. Later, transformed, the same desire becomes the desire to be taken, to lose oneself within the desired. From these two opposed moments come one of the dialectics of desire; both moments apply to both sexes and they oscillate. Clearly the second moment, the desire to lose oneself within, is the most abandoned, the most desperate, and it is the one that Caravaggio chose (or was compelled) to reveal in many of his paintings. — John Berger

The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing. — Brenna Yovanoff

And so I lie in bed and feel what I don't need come out of me. A steady ooze of bloody, amorphous clots slides out of me for days and with it flows all the guilt and regret and fear that I have carried, and while I sleep, people stronger than I am silently take it all away and dispose of it properly. — Hope Jahren

If it is Christian, it will be Bible-centered. — Billy Graham

Today Jacob is the Operations Director of the Kiefer Landfill Gas-to-Energy Plant for SMUD. — Charles Vrooman