Marble Quotes

253 quotes by 208 authors

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor — Hugh Prather
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time… — Alexis Carrel
All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are… — Rajneesh
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. — Ada Louise Huxtable
When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . . — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all… — Karl Philipp Moritz
Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with… — Dan Jenkins
If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature… — Joy Page
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble. — Christopher Wren
There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles. — Melina Mercouri
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence.… — Melina Mercouri
The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life… — Roberto Arlt
Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem?… — Pierre Albert-Birot
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher… — Joseph Addison
Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces.… — Steve Pavlina
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel... — John Burroughs
I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere/Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere. — Young Jeezy
A fellow must know where he wants to go, if he is going to get anywhere. It is so easy just to drift along. Some… — William C. Menninger
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little… — Samuel Johnson

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