Clay Quotes · Page 4

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

— Janet Fitch

“The dead clay makes no protest.”

— Sophocles

I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

— Andrew Jackson

I want to be the Cassius Clay of snooker. Cassius is the greatest at boxing and that's what I mean to be…

— Alex Higgins

I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.

— Jake M. Johnson

Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn

— Kelley Armstrong

I feel the best game on hard courts, even if I know that I can play well enough on grass and clay.

— Daniil Medvedev

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

— William Shakespeare

I think for Britain it's tough to play on clay. They prefer grass courts, hard courts, fast courts.

— David Goffin

When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for…

— Edmund Vance Cooke

A lot of clay court players want rhythm. They want the time to play from the baseline, and it's about preventing them…

— Tim Henman

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Raised on Bill Nye videos, LEGOs, and CD-ROMs of dinosaurs, I was a lump of nerdy clay waiting to be molded. 'Mythbusters'…

— Kyle Hill

You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you…

— Rick Yancey

In the modern game, you’re a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist ... or you’re Roger…

— Jimmy Connors

This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of…

— Omar Khayyam

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built…

— Steven Klein

By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,…

— Erasmus Darwin

Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians…

— John Perry Barlow

I like to work in films, but I'd love to work in the technical side of film. I'd love to work with,…

— Simon Pegg

“What’s this?” Nick said. “Bedtime?” No one answered him. I kept my eyes closed. “You look positively content, Clayton,” Nick continued, thumping…

— Kelley Armstrong

Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring…

— John Dryden

“I can smell arousal, Talin. You get hot every time you see me half-naked." The erotic need that flared through her body…

— Nalini Singh

I'm happiest when most away I can bear my soul from its home of clay On a windy night when the moon…

— Emily Bronte

We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.

— Pope Francis

What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.

— Francis Quarles

“About Daniel: Two, he hates Clay * Five, he really hates Clay. * Nine, he really, really, REALLY hates Clay.”

— Kelley Armstrong

Believe it or not, for football I'm a cardio guy. I was the Clay Guida of football.

— Matt Mitrione

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

— Saib Tabrizi

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

— John Boorman

Well, obviously it's clay. It's slower. You have to grind more. You move a lot more. You have to slide.

— Sofia Kenin

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ahead of going on the red carpet, in the morning, I'll put on a clay mask to prepare.

— Doutzen Kroes

We have been playing every summer on clay since I was five years old, so it is an easy surface for us…

— David Goffin

“You're so big." He would fill her up, take her over. "Remember that," he groaned. "And tell everyone you know.”

— Nalini Singh

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

— Og Mandino