Marble Quotes
253 quotes by 208 authors
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
— Joseph Addison
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
— Wendell Berry
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Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
— Phillips Brooks
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In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the…
— Nolan Bushnell
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
— Alexis Carrel
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No…
— Walter Russell
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A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
— Augustus
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Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand…
— Virgil
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One should always dress like a marble column.
— Jackie Kennedy
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of…
— Anatole France
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
— Seneca the Younger
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I…
— Michelangelo
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The top players in every field think differently when all the marbles are on the line. Great performers focus on what they are doing, and…
— John Eliot
Who Wrote These Marble Quotes
208 authors contributed a total of 253 Marble Quotes, led by these top contributors: