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Quotes About Iron

My son's name is Temujin," he said. "He will be iron.
~ Conn Iggulden
This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the viewing of wildlife. It is wilderness that gets into your nostrils, that runs with your sweat. It is the core of everything living, wilderness like molten iron.
~ Craig Childs
When savage nations are first visited by the civilized, they evince the greatest eagerness to obtain iron, as soon as they have come to know the uses of it, while the Christians who go amongst them, manifest a still greater desire for the possession of gold. To accomplish these mutual ends, the savages resort to cunning, pilfering, and bartering, and their more enlightened brethren to deception, violence, and fraud.
~ Lord Acton
The iron did not remember the blood it had once moved within, the phosphorous had forgot the savage brain.
~ Loren Eiseley
Somewhere along the way, their passion had become bottled anger. The anger had fermented into bitter hatred. Then the hatred had fed upon itself, gnawing away at them over years, even decades, until only a shell of cold iron and colder hate remained.
~ Jim Butcher
Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn't.' You looked at me. 'Your turn.' I rolled my eyes. 'The strong sister went outside into the rain and realized the reason she was strong was because she was made out of iron, but it was raining and she rusted. The end.' No, because the sister who wasn't strong went outside into the rain when it was raining, and hugged her really tight until the sun came out again.
~ Jodi Picoult
It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron.
~ Virgil
Had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron and a chest of brass, I could not tell all the forms of crime, could not name all the types of punishment.
~ Virgil
It would have been more sensible if I had gone for help, Felicity thought, feeling his arm like an iron yoke across her shoulders, and a chill seeping out from his wet clothes into her side.
~ Unknown
O what fine times, this age of iron!
~ Voltaire
I don't think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The silence of a place where there were once horses is a mountain and I have seen by lightning that ever mountain once fell from the air ringing like the chime of an iron shoe...
~ W.S. Merwin
Jay stopped and unlocked an iron gate with finals wrought in the shape of pineapples.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Ignorance was ever the iron of certainty, for it was as blind to itself as sleep. It was the absence of questions that made answers absolute—not knowledge!
~ R. Scott Bakker
It is a natural stronghold for them—they can infest this maze of iron and water like a horde of starving cockroaches, and they'll be just as hard to anticipate and to kill in such close quarters." "Wow," Shane said. "You really know how to drum up team spirit. Did you print up Team Total Fail jerseys, too?" Myrnin gave him an entirely crazy smile. "Would you be surprised if I had?
~ Rachel Caine
God was not some white-robed cloud king prone to sentimental meddling in human affairs. He was the iron that formed its core, and the fire in the belly of the blast furnaces that ran for a hundred years. God was the law of iron and the law of fire. God was nature and nature was God. There could not be one without the other.
~ Dennis Lehane
I swear by the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the holy iron that I hold, to give ye my fealty and pledge ye my loyalty to the name of the clan MacKenzie. If ever my hand shall be raised against ye in rebellion, I ask that this holy iron shall pierce my heart.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Wondered often, if I could call that edge to my service, and sheathe it safe again. For I have seen a great many men grow hard in that calling, and their steel decay to dull iron. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?
~ Diana Gabaldon
I have wondered," he said, so low I could scarcely hear him. "Wondered often, if I could call that edge to my service, and sheathe it safe again. For I have seen a great many men grow hard in that calling, and their steel decay to dull iron. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?
~ Diana Gabaldon
October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy draughts that bit at exposed hands and faces.
~ J. K. Rowling
Coke can do other useful things. Phosphate from phosphoric acid is a great rust remover, forming a soluble complex with iron. Coke can therefore be used to loosen rusty bolts. You can remove rust spots on a chrome bumper with aluminum foil dipped in Coke. In a pinch, you can use it to clean a toilet bowl as well.
~ Joe Schwarcz
Stainless steel is durable and does not tarnish. We make it by alloying iron with other metals, most notably nickel and chromium.
~ Joe Schwarcz
The symbol of the University is the iron statue outside the Rathskeller of a barefoot goosegirl that every student kisses at graduation. The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.
~ Jacob Bronowski
If I could do it, I'd do no writing at all here. It would be photographs; the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, pieces of wood and iron, phials of odors, plates of food and of excrement…. A piece of the body torn out by the root might be more to the point.
~ James Agee