England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Fortunately, when we have all our marbles, we can shift our memories very quickly. — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them. — Martial Copy Share Image
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine. — Jimy Williams Copy Share Image
The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . . — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to… — Joy Page Copy Share Image
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Information is lightning-quick. It crosses cities, states, and national borders in the twinkle of an eye. It passes through many kinds of… — Sarah Jeong Copy Share Image
It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman… — J. Milton Hayes Copy Share Image
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away… — James Irwin Copy Share Image
Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My Chevrolet shines like a marble floor. Baby keep it raw, have you modeled before? — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“The man had a body that made her want to learn how to carve marble.” — Jenna Bayley-Burke Copy Share Image
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image