Quotes About Symbolism

The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing if all of those brown bags contained 'nutritionally adequate diets.' But I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility.

Thus, 1 is actually a function with the two bound variables f and x. Just offhand, those two variables seem like two more variables than are needed to define a simple number.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting.

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

Three scarred faces. It's significant. You and Brooke and your friend Malik. It was always going to be.

Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

Throughout the Gospel there is a consistent narrative opposition between those representing the symbolic order on the one hand and the poor and marginal on the other: 1. priests (purity) vs. the leprous (1: 41ff.); 2. scribes (debt) vs. the physically disabled (2: 1ff.); 3. Pharisees (debt) vs. the dependent elderly (7: 6ff.); 4. scribes (debt) vs. disenfranchised widows (12: 40).

The community's practice of forgiveness becomes the replacement of the redemptive/ symbolic system of debt represented in the temple. The community becomes truly the "priesthood of all believers," the place of prayer "for all peoples.

Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.

We are all creatures of myth, shadowed by archaic images of life and death.

the crows grew fat on the remains of both our armies. Empires rise and fall, and the only true victors are the birds.

For index now as he stretched forth Derwent, arrested, cried, "Dost bleed?" Touching the naked skin: "Look here— A living fresco!" And indeed, Upon the fore-arm did appear A thing of art, vermil and blue, A crucifixion in tattoo, With trickling blood-drops strange to see...

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.

I have so mushroom in my heart for you!

All you need to forecast the weather is a stone on a string — • Stone wet: Rain • Stone dry: Not raining • Shadow on ground: Sunny • White on stone: Snow • Can't see stone: Foggy • Swinging stone: Windy • Jumpy stone: Earthquake • Stone gone: Tornado

In smoldering ashes, do you see dead fire? — or the phoenix's glittering dreams?

TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

There's a black rose growing in your garden.

grape, knife, cup, wheat / are symbols in eternity, / and every concrete object / has abstract value, is timeless / in the dream parallel

In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.

A beautiful woman is a car crash

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