Quotes About Symbolism

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.

When Nate and I got married, instead of flowers we had these quartz and rock crystals everywhere.

AIADMK bears Annadurai in its name and his image on its flag. We will extend full cooperation in upholding the principles of democracy following the footsteps of Annadurai and MGR.

We do have a black president, and that means a lot. People ask, 'What has he done?' What he's done is change the color up, which you see on the screen. When the head of the free world is black, there's got to be some sort of spin-off from it.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

The bricked-up fourteenth-century "doors of the dead" are still visible. These ghosts of doors beside the main entrance were designed, some say, to take out the plague victims—bad luck for them to exit by the main entrance. I notice in the regular doors, people often leave their keys in the lock.

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

Like Beauty. But she only pricked her finger. I had a spindle through my heart.

There was a collage of dead butterflies on the wall.

In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade's French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America.

But did I ever get over her? She came to symbolize everything I wanted and would never have.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

Levanté la vista y vi un caballo de color verde pálido.El jinete se llamaba Muerte y su compañero era la Tumba. APOCALIPSIS 6:8

I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.

Paul crawled through the sphincter

Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. "They are my own hooks," Shishakli said in a husky voice. "They never have failed.

Maker—their word for worm

Sometime I must recount for you the legend of the phoenix

Nothing on this planet had so forcefully hammered into her the ultimate value of water. Not the water-sellers, not the dried skins of the natives, not stillsuits or the rules of water discipline. Here there was a substance more precious than all others—it was life itself and entwined all around with symbolism and ritual. Water.

White for poison, black for purity," the Lady Fenring said. "A curious custom, isn't it, my love?

Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.

Nothing on this planet had so forcefully hammered into her the ultimate value of water. Not the water-sellers, not the dried skins of the natives, not stillsuits or the rules of water discipline. Here there was a substance more precious than all others - it was life itself and entwined all around with symbolism and ritual.

before men could speak they enjoyed confounding another with signs they enjoyed this as much as a mirror enjoys an image as much as the evening like a ship enjoys a sapphire grave

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.