Clay Quotes

325 quotes by 264 authors

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to… — John Henrik Clarke
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that… — Johann Gottfried Herder
A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they… — Leonhard Rauwolf
Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but… — Henry David Thoreau
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling… — Esther Hicks
Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body. — Shailene Woodley
We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce… — Janet Morris
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting… — Jean Anouilh
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness,… — Aristophanes
[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. — Tim Berners-Lee
Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho'… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine… — William James
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Time is clay. Go make something. — Barbara Bach
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do .… — Charles Simonds
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native… — Winston Churchill
The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and… — Erich Maria Remarque

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