Clay Quotes · Page 5

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

I think in terms of how my game developed on clay that was amazing.

— Tim Henman

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

— Francis Bacon

The Brodus Clay have gimmick good for the kids and make the people happy.

— The Iron Sheik

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

— Sonny Liston

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

— Plutarch

If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.

— Rafael Nadal

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

— Janet Fitch

I think my game is very suited for clay. It brings out my strengths more so than my other surfaces.

— Jack Sock

Movement on clay is totally different to every other surface and you have to have that balance and understanding of how to…

— Tim Henman

There's something really raw and exciting about grabbing a lump of clay and creating something unique out of it.

— Sara Cox

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

We are like clay containers filled with a beautiful treasure. So often it has been the love of Jesus expressed through the…

— Roy Lessin

For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man…

— George Leonard

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they…

— Margaret Walker

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

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at…

— Henry Moore

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

Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“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

We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him "the lecture," including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the…

— Kelley Armstrong

“There's a unique substance in each one of us. A raw matter known as the child, pure and impressionable, flexible enough to…

— Zohreh Ghahremani

It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the…

— Francis Chan

I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as…

— Michael Gungor

It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on…

— Charles Spurgeon

But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their…

— Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

“It's after school, after my double detentions for gym and chemistry, and I'm at Knead, about to begin working on a new…

— Laurie Faria Stolarz

Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable…

— Edith Wharton

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

Before I started playing more on the WTA tour, I actually won most of my Challengers on the clay, especially at the…

— Johanna Konta

You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay…

— Bjorn Borg

Don't put your hands in your pocket which will lead you to destruction, but put your hands on the clay that will…

— Anonymous

People in the media grew up in the Northeast and can't comprehend the notion that there are people who like to go…

— Matt Gaetz

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid…

— Jacques Barzun

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

— Daniil Medvedev

I grew up in rural Alabama, and some of my older family members used to eat red clay dirt. As a kid,…

— Cynthia Bailey