Bronze Quotes

101 quotes by 86 authors

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
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze. — Horace
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
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
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
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
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
You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year. — Damon Runyon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze. — Nicolas Chamfort
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
Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death. — Emil Nolde
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
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

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