Spinning Wheel Quotes

#1. My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. At night, she slipped into the shelter of the boy's arms as they stood together on deck, picking out constellations from the vast spill of stars: the Hunter, the Scholar, the Three Foolish Sons, the bright spokes of the Spinning Wheel, the Southern Palace with its six crooked spires.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. There he lay spooked, a spinning wheel in a celestial bowling alley.

Meg Rosoff

#9. The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.

Dean Koontz

#11. I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. they "come to the business of life & the application of knowledge they find that they are inferior - & all their studies have not given them that practical good sense & mother wisdom & wit which grew up with our grandmothers at the spinning wheel,

Megan Marshall

#13. The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Susan B. Anthony

#20. The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.

Anne Rice

#23. The cursor changed to the spinning wheel of sadness.

Madeleine Roux

#24. When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. There was no slipper, nor spinning wheel, nor true love's first kiss. This was not a fairy tale with a happily ever after.

Lisa Mantchev

#29. The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#35. If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#37. The creativity strength is like a spinning wheel, you need to figure out how to boost it up.

Pearl Zhu

#38. The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#39. The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

Mahatma Gandhi

#40. The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence."

Vandana Shiva

#41. Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheel complete, thy holy word thy distaff make for me.

Edward Taylor

#42. A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

Friedrich Engels

#44. Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

Mahatma Gandhi

#45. The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#46. People gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and turn with the cards and lose themselves, with the coins, in the slots. They want to know they matter.

Neil Gaiman

#47. Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind.

Michel Legrand

#48. He read as others pray, as gamblers follow the spinning of the roulette wheel, as drunkards stare into vacancy; he read with such profound absorption that ever since I first watched him the reading of ordinary mortals seemed a pastime.

Stefan Zweig

#49. The wheel of Rome spins constantly. Gods rise and fall, mortals live and die, and round and round we go. We all play a part in that wheel ... And I make sure the wheel never stops spinning. You see, if the wheel stops, balance is lost.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#50. The tricky thing about abusive relationships is that they are never constant hell. You need the good times to clutch onto so you'll tolerate the bad. Those good times are what keep the wheel spinning.

Maggie Young

#51. Life is simple:
We lose and regain; and the wheel keeps spinning and the wheel keeps spinning.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#52. To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

H.L. Mencken

#53. Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

Robin Morgan

#54. I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Beck

#55. The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.

Ruben Martinez

#56. Grandma took her wheel and spun.
And the wheel-whir of the long days filled the croft; and this one wheel spinning was like the wheel of time, which carries our souls away to its own land.

Halldor Laxness

#57. The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.

Bill Parcells