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Quotes About Iron

Their friendship is like a tapestry in a drawer. Today is the iron passing over the cloth, smoothing out the wrinkles, bring out the pattern that makes it unique and beautiful.
~ Nancy Thayer
Peace does not flourish except among moribund nations. Under the sun of iron hegemonies.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The charming canal St-Martin is 4.5Km long and is bordered by shaded towpaths and traversed by iron footbridges.
~ Unknown
Give me iron words forged in fire that I may speak the language of earth.
~ Normandi Ellis
The gods disappeared with their following—nature stood forlorn and lifeless. Arid count and strict measure bound her with iron chains.
~ Novalis
Either we serve the unconditional / Or some Hitlerian monster will supply / An iron convention to do evil by.
~ Os Guinness
Siebold Adelbertsmiter, my former boss, is an old fae, a metalworker, which is unusual for the fae who mostly can't handle cold iron. He calls himself a gremlin, though he is a lot older than the name, coined by flyboys in WWI. I have a degree in history, so I know useless things like that.
~ Patricia Briggs
Thank goodness that's over," she said, taking the crown off and throwing it across the cave. It hit the wall and bounced off with a harsh clang. "You shouldn't treat your crown like that, Your Majesty," Cimorene said, retrieving the iron circlet. "Of course I should," Kazul said. "It's expected. That's why we made it out of iron instead of something soft and bendable. ...
~ Patricia C. Wrede
I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. "That," he said firmly to the room in general, "is what comes of working with iron every day.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Cyphus bears the blue flame. Stercus is in thrall of iron. Ferule chill and dark of eye. Usnea lives in nothing but decay. Grey Dalcenti never speaks. Pale Alenta brings the blight. Last there is the lord of seven: Hated. Hopeless. Sleepless. Sane. Alaxel bears the shadow's hame.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
you are a night walker. a moon follower. you must be safe from iron, from cold, from spite. you must be quiet. you must be light. you must move softly in the night. you must be quick and unafraid." She nodded to herself. "this means I must make you a shaed." She
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Dianne is like a waterfall of spark pouring off a sharp iron edge that God is holding to the grindstone.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.
~ Paul Fussell
Rutherford showed how radio waves could travel long distances, penetrate walls, and magnetize iron.
~ Unknown
Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.
~ Paula Fox
Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
~ Numbers 31:22
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
~ Deuteronomy 3:11
a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.
~ Deuteronomy 8:9
The LORD was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plains because they had chariots of iron.
~ Judges 1:19
he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.
~ Judges 4:13
“Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.
~ 2 Kings 6:6
David provided a large quantity of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, together with more bronze than could be weighed
~ 1 Chronicles 22:3
Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
~ Job 28:2
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
~ Proverbs 27:17