Emblems Quotes
69 quotes by 63 authors
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As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean…
— William Wordsworth
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I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the…
— Smedley Butler
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Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
— William Butler Yeats
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The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door,…
— Marsilio Ficino
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I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem…
— Aimee Bender
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Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.
— Steve Ballmer
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I am proposing to you as a rallying emblem the letter V, because V is the first letter of the words 'Victoire' in French, and…
— Victor de Laveleye
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Death is the inseparable antecedent of life; the seed dies in order to produce the plant, and earth itself is rent asunder and dies at…
— Albert Pike
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Then soon with the emblem of truth overflowing, And dripping with coolness, it rose from the well.
— Samuel Woodworth
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A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden…
— Eleanor Perenyi
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We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.
— William J. Brennan
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As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
— William Cowper
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The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy
— Thomas Bulfinch
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I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be…
— Sarah Waters
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The dove is my emblem.
— Thomas A. Edison
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Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
— Joseph Addison
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The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who…
— Aleister Crowley
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like…
— Charles Darwin
Who Wrote These Emblems Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 69 Emblems Quotes, led by these top contributors: