Iron Quotes · Page 13

(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]

— Quintilian

“History doesn’t move you more than when it’s in the iron of your own blood.”

— J.R. Tompkins

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

— David Pajo

Brush teeth. Wash hair. Rule undead world with an iron fist.

— Jeaniene Frost

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

— Isocrates

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot.

— Richard Sharp

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

— Alexander Dubcek

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

— Spike Milligan

What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s…

— Tony Abbott

I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron chain. They rattle…

— Maureen Johnson

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,…

— William Blake

The paradigm of the development of natural resource-based industry - meatpacking, lard, timber, iron and coal, grain. Cincinnati's lard processing plants looked…

— Charles R. Morris

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen,…

— Charles Spurgeon

What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that…

— Jack Vance

The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.

— David Fricke

By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of…

— Hugh McCulloch

With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron…

— Lord Byron

Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and for thy possession, the ends of the earth.…

— Alexander Anderson

The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in…

— Aurangzeb

Now, brethren, this is one of our greatest faults in our Christian lives. We are allowing too many rivals of God. We…

— Anonymous

'Superstar' Billy Graham was someone that my dad taught from A to Z, from tying up to submission wrestling. Billy was more…

— Bret Hart

I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper…

— Isak Dinesen

The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical…

— Arthur Koestler

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another…

— Joseph Joubert

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

— John Flavel

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

— Liam Neeson

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

— Robert B. Parker

The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.

— Charles Marion Russell

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

— Anonymous

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

— Peg Bracken

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

— Oliver Cromwell

Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.

— Lisa Scottoline

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

A shirt look good when you iron it but if you iron too much, it gonna get burned.

— Charles Oakley

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

— Ann Voskamp

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

— Marie Osmond

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

— William Macneile Dixon

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

— Winston Churchill