Emblems Quotes
69 quotes by 63 authors
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Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right…
— Philip Pullman
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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned…
— Walter Scott
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Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was created for the…
— John Piper
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There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in…
— Paul Auster
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She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.
— Milan Kundera
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In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her:…
— Milan Kundera
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Simon had never noticed before, but she wore a silver ring on her right hand, with a partner of flames around the band of it,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple.
— John W. Dawson
Who Wrote These Emblems Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 69 Emblems Quotes, led by these top contributors: