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Quotes About Symbolism

And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~ Francis Thompson
I believe it's not 100 percent right to kneel during the national anthem, because you have to respect what many have done for this nation. I think kneeling prior to the anthem, like the Dallas Cowboys have done, is right.
~ Kevin-Prince Boateng
It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.
~ Trevor Paglen
Everything I do is about Chinese culture. My dishes have to symbolize something because they taste better when people understand.
~ Alvin Leung
I was born in the Chinese year of the rooster, so maybe that explains my affinity with chickens.
~ Adriano Zumbo
Pearls mean tears.
~ Doris Lessing
My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.
~ Erin Wasson
If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
~ Nancy Gibbs
A star for every State, and a State for every star.
~ Robert Charles Winthrop
The Token" My lady fair with soft arms, what can I say to you—words, words as if all worlds were there.
~ Robert Creeley
Let him make rimes for the vultures.
~ Robert E. Howard
Queréis decir que no hay diferencia entre estar despierta o dormida? ?Básicamente, no, pues siempre estamos en un estado de aprendizaje. Creemos que soñar dormidos es diferente porque a menudo esos sueños nos proporcionan mensajes y símbolos que no son comprensibles. Pero, considerad vuestro estado de vigilia, ¿no os encontráis con frecuencia envuelta en sucesos que no son comprensibles? ?le contestó Merlín.
~ Robert Fisher
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
~ Robert Frank
Tree at my window, window tree,My sash is lowered when night comes on;But let there never be curtain drawnBetween you and me.
~ Robert Frost
With soap, baptism is a good thing.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status...
~ Robert Galbraith
Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.
~ Robert Harbison
Color is only beautiful when it means something.
~ Robert Henri
When a daffodil I see,Hanging down his head t'wards me,Guess I may what I must be:First, I shall decline my head;Secondly, I shall be dead;Lastly, safely buryed.
~ Robert Herrick
Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam A strawberry shows half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.
~ Robert Herrick
But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.
~ Robert Hughes
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
~ Robert Hughes
The construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. – Revelation 21:18
~ Robert J. Morgan
His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. – Revelation 19:12
~ Robert J. Morgan