Marble Quotes

253 quotes by 208 authors

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. — Alexander Pope
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
... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in… — Albert Einstein
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also… — Agatha Christie
Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts.… — Confucius
Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The… — Edwin Markham
If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when… — Oswald Chambers
The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God… — Peter Kreeft
The big, blazing truth about man is that he has a heaven-sized hole in his heart, and nothing else can fill it. We pass our… — Peter Kreeft
Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason… — Jean-Paul Marat
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful… — James Irwin
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared… — John Ruskin
I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains! — Reinhard Bonnke
I think it's important to remember that these men are not perfect. If they were marble gods, what they did wouldn't be so admirable. The… — David McCullough
One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab — Keith Richards
I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow… — Helen Keller
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can… — Helen Keller
It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the… — Paolo Bacigalupi
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. — Michelangelo
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. — Michelangelo

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