Symbols Quotes · Page 21

The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history…

— Novalis

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

— Umberto Eco

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns…

— Orhan Pamuk

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

— Charles de Gaulle

Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet.

— Antonio Guterres

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money…

— Henry Ford

I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one.

— Chath Piersath

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

— Anonymous

I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it…

— Robertson Davies

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

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation.…

— Pat Robertson

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the…

— Joan Didion

I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect…

— Ted Shawn

I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of…

— Ernesto Cardenal

Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely…

— Reza Aslan

I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children's grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all…

— Rodney Crowell

I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those…

— Luis Barragan

I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act.…

— Ray Bradbury

Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the…

— John Burroughs

Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the…

— Noam Chomsky

Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life…

— Henry Van Dyke

I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are…

— Alan Watts

It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets…

— Virginia Woolf

Do you understand any of this?" he said, pointing to the lines and symbols that covered the massive screens. "Some people understand…

— Ally Carter

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed…

— Tennessee Williams

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am…

— Philippe Halsman

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

— Mark Twain

To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.

— Mike Schultz

I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside…

— Marina Sirtis

What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity,…

— Alfred Kazin

I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

— Zack Snyder

All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative…

— Edith Hamilton

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

— Jacques Lacan

Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should…

— Pope Francis

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings…

— Tommy Douglas

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that…

— Harvey Weinstein

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

— Alan Moore

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ,…

— John Ruskin