Marble Quotes

253 quotes by 208 authors

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds. — Chuck Palahniuk
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable,… — Penelope Lively
There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave… — J. Milton Hayes
I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble. — Suetonius
I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the… — Dylan Thomas
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner! — Bayard Taylor
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as… — Mark Hopkins
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Youth dreams a bliss on this side of death. It dreams a rest, if not more deep, More grateful than this marble sleep; It hears… — Matthew Arnold
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go! — Mark Twain
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works.… — Criss Jami
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There… — Henry Timrod
Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international" style that is… — George Pendle
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. — Benjamin Franklin
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Life is made up of marble and mud. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of… — Elbert Hubbard
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be… — Victor Hugo
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as… — Jose Marti
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. — Michelangelo

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