Clay Quotes

325 quotes by 256 authors

Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields… — Erich Maria Remarque
To accept oneâ€™s past â€“ oneâ€™s history â€“ is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An… — James A. Baldwin
Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius… — Muhammad Ali
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A… — Lloyd Alexander
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the… — Madeleine L'Engle
I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand. — Janet Fitch
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths… — Lloyd Alexander
God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each… — Ray Bradbury
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the… — Frederic Bastiat
I dream in fire but work in clay. — Arthur Machen
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have… — Jorge Luis Borges
won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman… — Lucille Clifton
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been… — Zora Neale Hurston
Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein… — Michael Chabon
Had I known but yesterday what I know today, Iâ€™d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had… — Carolyn Parkhurst
An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in… — Arthur Golden
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even… — Jorge Luis Borges
Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again… — Cormac McCarthy
Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke… — Lloyd Alexander
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. — Jacques Barzun

Who Wrote These Clay Quotes

256 authors contributed a total of 325 Clay Quotes, led by these top contributors: