Cherish Quote by Audre Lorde Download Open image “It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.” — Audre Lorde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cherish Doe Hands Lying Pay Substance Symbols
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be;… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance.… — Wally Olins Copy Share Image
If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek.… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
“Our symbols aren’t supposed to matter, but that’s wishful thinking—symbols always matter.” — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise. — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy… — Audre Lorde Copy Share
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to… — Jack Cade Copy Share Image
I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
The longer you are in acting business, the more you cherish the times when you're working with people that do great work, and can… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping… — Bob Alberti Copy Share Image
I cherish my clothes and I remember what seasons they're from. But someone said to me as I was having trouble with styling a dress that I had bought, and he said to me: "Throw it on the floor." And I was like, "What? It's like a gown." He goes, "Throw it on the floor," and I did, and he's… — Kate Hudson Copy Share
You never know what's going to happen so just enjoy the moments that you have with the people you love and cherish them. Let… — Camille Grammer Copy Share Image
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I keep a lot to myself, and I cherish the things that are for me and the people closest to me. — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
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