Quotes About Symbolism

it took Peeta's ploy for me to recognize it. What am I going to do? I take a deep breath. My arms rise slightly — as if recalling the black-and-white wings Cinna gave me — then come to rest at my sides. "I'm going to be the Mockingjay.

member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

The wings are not representative of angelic status—angels themselves do not have wings, as you have been told. The image of wings is symbolic of soaring beyond beliefs and philosophies not based in truth, but rather based in perceived separation.

I believe there is something incredibly powerful in the act of saying your name. I might even go as far as to say that it is the symbolic key to unlocking your powerful self. I believe that it is not until you can say your name with pride, incredible pride for who you are and all that your name represents, that you will ever be the powerful woman I want you to be.

The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

Over the years, my 'Door' paintings have become somewhat mythologized.

'The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

The peacock has become one of my regular sources of inspiration from nature.

I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.

I salute South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Lindsey Graham for their calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the Statehouse.

Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.

Give me wildflowers instead of your heart, for I'd rather have them wither than the latter.

Love is like a rose. So beautiful to look at, yet so painful to touch.

I didn't have to say a word. My love for him appeared upon my flesh like virgin tattooed skin.

The story was heavy in her hands, the book spread open like legs, the letters very small i spite of describing such a big moment

It's a trinity ring. Pink for love, yellow for fidelity and white for friendship. I liked the symbolism of three—you, me and baby-to-be.

A rabbit's foot may bring good luck to you, but it brought none to the rabbit.

The number 7 shirt is an honor and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.

commitment and signaling

When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best-beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a black veil!

It may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.

The latter is perhaps the truest theory. She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation. We shall see whether Hester Prynne were ever afterwards so touched and so transfigured.

Pearl gathered the violets, and anemones, and columbines, and some twigs of the freshest green, which the old trees held down before her eyes. With these she decorated her hair and her young waist, and became a nymph child, or an infant dryad, or whatever else was in closest sympathy with the antique wood.