Famous quotes containing the words counted and/or thread:
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. It’s another thing, though, to hold up that cloth for inspection.”
—John Gregory Brown (20th century)