History Quote by Elizabeth A. Johnson Download Open image “As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.” — Elizabeth A. Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Idols Metaphor Shows
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our… — John Green Copy Share Image
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that the metaphor “is the fertile soil from which all language is born, and literal language is the graveyard into… — David Kord Murray Copy Share Image
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness. — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Once one understands that the evolving community of life on Earth is God’s beloved creation and its ruination an unspeakable sin, then deep affection… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth,… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who die relearn or remember The secrets of life that they forgot at birth. — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
