It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from… — Hugh Evans Copy Share Image
The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238” — Leslie Bratspis Copy Share Image
For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to… — Juliette Gordon Low Copy Share Image
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
It's hilarious to be considered a sex symbol. In school I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into. Being… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I think jeans have gotten away from the original meaning, that symbol of freedom; they've gone gimmicky and turned into a status… — Johan Lindeberg Copy Share Image
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
If I write a fantastic story, I'm not writing something willful. On the contrary, I am writing something that stands for my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image