Marble Quotes · Page 8

How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them…

— Pablo Picasso

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation…

— Florence Nightingale

I used to play snooker in millionaires' mansions with marble floors and eat at the best places, but that's all over now.

— Alex Higgins

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

— John Gossage

A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I…

— Arthur Tappan Pierson

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

— Anonymous

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble…

— Mathias Dopfner

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

— Joseph Addison

I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be…

— David McCullough

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

— Charles Spurgeon

Today I am a small blue thing Like a marble or an eye

— Suzanne Vega

And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may…

— Geraldine Brooks

Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath…

— Paul Verlaine

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference…

— Rob Kall

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

— Charles Sumner

New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum,…

— David Frost

One should always dress like a marble column.

— Jackie Kennedy

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I didn't run with a gang - I didn't have time. There were a few little street gangs sitting in the spotlights…

— Muhammad Ali

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on…

— Hugh Prather

It [Doral] is 800 acres in the middle of Miami. If you look at the ballroom, that was brand-new ballroom that didn`t…

— Donald Trump

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the…

— Victor Hugo

Life is made up of marble and mud.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!

— Reinhard Bonnke