Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When men climb on a great mountain together the rope between them is more than a mere physical aid to the ascent; it is…

— Charles S Houston

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

— Philippe Starck

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

— Flannery O'Connor

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly…

— Carl Jung

I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I am. The majority of them…

— Teena Marie

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

— Cindy Sheehan

After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You…

— Adam Michnik

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

— Bob Costas

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective…

— e. e. cummings

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

— Veronica Lake

As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration.

— Daniel Craig

“Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

— David D. Burns