Bronze Quotes
101 quotes by 86 authors
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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches…
— Mark Twain
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
— Horace
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Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand…
— Virgil
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy…
— Virginia Woolf
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the…
— Lawrence Durrell
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I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a…
— Gianluca Basile
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There is a way to play this game physically, but it's the mental part that's going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze.
— Lisa Fernandez
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You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
— Damon Runyon
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The basic material of photographs is not intrinsically beautiful. It's not like ivory or tapestry or bronze or oil on canvas. You're not supposed to…
— John Szarkowski
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I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from…
— Deborah Levy
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Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a…
— Jaime Pressly
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Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every…
— Nikolai Gogol
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With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze.…
— Garry Kasparov
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as…
— John Ruskin
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We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a…
— Betty Okino
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
— Macy Gray
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Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.
— Emil Nolde
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When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will…
— Flannery O'Connor
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In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts…
— Robert Klein
Who Wrote These Bronze Quotes
86 authors contributed a total of 101 Bronze Quotes, led by these top contributors: