Carved Quotes
176 Carved quotes by 153 unique authors
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Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.
— Bob Dylan
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On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
— Bob Dylan
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Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.
— James Taylor
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Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great…
— Jeff Olson
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I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
— Guy Davenport
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the…
— Faith Prince
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You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.
— Mary Oliver
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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my…
— Will Rogers
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There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a…
— Alan Jackson
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Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the…
— Edward Bennett Williams
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Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works.…
— Criss Jami
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Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold,…
— Victoria Finlay
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to…
— Primo Levi
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
— Michelangelo
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The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
— David Viscott
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At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You…
— Arthur Golden
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A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide…
— Ken Kesey
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Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:…
— Galway Kinnell
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Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in…
— Victoria Hanley
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That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,…
— Susan Vreeland
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Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His…
— Katherine Dunn
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
— Edwidge Danticat
Who Wrote These Carved Quotes
153 authors contributed a total of 176 Carved Quotes, led by these top contributors: