Quotes About Symbolism

Our mother had taught us that when the moon was white, reappearing after its absence, it was showing us that what had been hidden could easily become whole again.

For women who wanted a child, mistletoe was to be strung over their beds. If that had no effect, they must tie nine knots in a strong rope, then burn the rope and eat the ashes and soon enough they would conceive.

Do you think your mother came back? Shelby asks him. Definitely. She's a cardinal who lives in my backyard.

For green is love and luck just as it is jealousy and envy

The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.

What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.

What if people really did that--sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkeys' eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.)

I knew gloves meant you were an adult and mittens meant you weren't.

I think of the meaning of the word testimony. Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake.

She got a whole bunch of elephants and turtles everywhere. Some big, some little, some in the fountain, some up under the trees. Turtles and elephants. And all over her house. Curtains got elephants, bedspreads got turtles.

This room is very powerful: Buddha, golden, holding down one side; the primordial Great Mother, black, offering her bead of mitochondria holding down the other.

Since mediaeval times, the King had been seen as two bodies in one: a mortal entity and "the King's person," representing unending royal authority; monarchs therefore referred to themselves in the plural form as "we.

America, the plum blossoms are falling.

Sometimes its like Nathaniel Hawthorne is trying to be deep.

Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! -and you, García Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?

America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

ALLEGORY, n. A metaphor in three volumes and a tiger.

ADMIRAL, n. That part of a war-ship which does the talking while the figure-head does the thinking.

Secrets, power. It's all a metaphor.

Flags never add to a man, d'you see, just stand in for something he's missing.

So many of man's inventions - the syringe, the sword, the pen, the gun - were metaphorical cocks, but the internal combustion engine had to have been dreamt up by a man who had looked upon the human heart.

Ecstasy? Like the drug?" Michelle asked. "Wow. Trippy. They were into that back then?" "No. Not like the drug. Like fun. She's a symbol of never-ending fun.