My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. — Martin H. Fischer Copy Share Image
The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those… — Alfred Bunn Copy Share Image
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. — William Drummond Copy Share Image
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble,… — James Irwin Copy Share Image
On average, once a month for the last 10 years since her [Harper Lee] stroke, we have sat and talked and told… — Wayne Flynt Copy Share Image
It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs...and nothing but a very very blue sky, very… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The best sculptor is the one who can most accurately reproduce in marble the image that he sees before him. The good… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children… — Jean Piaget 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
You must be mistaken," Isabel said, unconcerned by the insult that the words carried. "I assure you i am not. Voluptas is… — Sarah MacLean 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
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
![“As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this…” quote by James Irwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a4/james-irwin-74067_astronaut_as-we-got-further-and-further-away-it-th_531776.png)
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