Quotes About Iron
This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
~ Samuel Smiles
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This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.
~ Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Even in sleep, the wizard had an iron grip.
~ Jenny Nimmo
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What did you eat for dinner?" the dark prince huffed. "What do you mean?" Jonquil frowned at her escort as he rowed. "You're so heavy, it's like you're wearing iron undetrhings," he panted. "Oh!" Jonquil whacked her prince on the shoulder with her fan. "How rude!
~ Jessica Day George
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What has Kantorek [their teacher] written to you?' Muller asks him [Kropp]. He laughs. 'We are the Iron Youth.' We all three smile bitterly . . . Yes, that's what they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
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What has Kantorek written to you?" Müller asks him. He laughs. "We are the Iron Youth." We all three smile bitterly, Kropp rails: he is glad that he can speak. Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
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The Age Demand The age demanded that we sing And cut away our tongue. The age demanded that we flow And hammered in the bung. The age demanded that we dance And jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed The sort of shit that it demanded.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Siberia is also a rich source of iron, tin, gold and other metals, and possesses the world's deepest lake, Baikal.
~ Andrew Marr
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But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
~ Andrew Marvell
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And yet I quickly might arrive Where my extended soul is fixt, But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
~ Andrew Marvell
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Chain consisted of an iron ring of about four inches diameter with six lengths of iron chain, each about a fathom long, welded on and wrapped tight to the bore of a thirty two.
~ Andrew Wareham
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Langrage was basically shards of cast or wrought iron, jagged-edged, parcelled up much like chain, used in the smaller bore cannon where chain was impractical; it had become much less popular in recent years, probably as much through fashion as logical argument.
~ Andrew Wareham
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I believe in the sword. As you can see, I carry two. Every witcher does. It's said, spitefully, the silver one is for monsters and the iron for humans. But that's wrong. As there are monsters which can be struck down only with a silver blade, so there are those for whom iron is lethal. And lola, not just any iron, it must come from a meteorite
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
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Magic, like a spiked iron arrow, lodged in her. Wounded her deeply. Hurt. Hurt with the strange sort of pain oddly associated with bliss.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
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Rice, wheat and other grains can help to address protein-calorie under-nutrition. But only attention to horticulture, milk and eggs can help to overcome hidden hunger caused by the deficiency of micro-nutrients like iodine, iron, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B12, etc.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
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I don't even have an iron. Yes, it means I can't own crisp, white shirts - but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. My clothes simply emerge pristine from the dryer. Jeans don't crease and, for work, stretchy Lycra holds its shape.
~ Susanna Reid
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
~ J. R. Smith
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Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
~ Andrei A. Gromyko
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I did three television shows in Poughkeepsie in one day, with Adrian Adonis and The Iron Sheik. They gave us no food.
~ Roddy Piper
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They trapped the Lion on Shamu's plain; They weighted his limbs with an iron chain; They cried aloud in the trumpet-blast, They cried, "The lion is caged at last!" Woe to the Cities of river and plain If ever the Lion stalks again! —Old Ballad.
~ Robert E. Howard
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Unless Russia is faced with an iron fist and strong language another war is in the making. Only one language do they understand—'How many divisions have you?
~ Robert H. Ferrell
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The grounds had an iron fence set in a stone knee wall, which was just wide enough for a small person to sit on, and Turner was a small person, and Reacher was used to being uncomfortable.
~ Lee Child
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old man. He turned his head and looked north and south along the road and then craned his thick neck to glance back over his shoulder at the college gate. He was thirty yards away from me. The college gate itself was purely a ceremonial thing. Two tall brick pillars just rose up from a long expanse of tended lawn behind the sidewalk. Connecting the pillars was a high double gate made from iron bars bent
~ Lee Child
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Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
~ Aldous Huxley
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