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Quotes About Symbol

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.
~ Edmond Rostand
Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
...got the ink as a constant symbol of what I fight for and of what I have to live for.
~ Megan Mitcham, Justice Mine
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. ("Tomorrow")
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I prefer pi.
~ Yôko Ogawa
Shortly before Corbyn became head of the party in 2015, Scottish columnist Stephen Daisley, who does not think Corbyn is an antisemite, observed, "How much easier it would make things" if he were. One could then simply attribute political developments in the Labour Party to the prejudices of one man. But, he continued, "this isn't about Jeremy Corbyn; he's just a symptom and a symbol. The Left, and not just the fringes, has an antisemitism problem.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.
~ Deborah Hopkinson
Word is a shadow of deed.
~ Democritus
They drive an Avis Grey Lady, a car that costs the same as a modest house.
~ Denise Mina
Anyone who disrespects the flag has never been handed a folded one.
~ Denise Swanson
This is the starting point, Daisy had said. It's the symbol for self. Its essence is water. Your relationship with yourself is primary, like water you must be willing to change. The Rune means to me that I must strive to live the ordinary life in a non-ordinary way. This is what it says in The Book of Runes. Take heart, in the spirit you are always beginning.
~ Denny Taylor
Hennie read the last lines of the pamphlet: "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" "That's Emma Lazarus," said Pa. "Is that her up there?" asked Hennie and pointed at Melinda Swanevelder in the Volvo. Pa said no, Emma Lazarus was an American poet. She wrote the poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty. The woman in the cab is Melinda Swanevelder. We found her in Vanderkloof.
~ Deon Meyer
The symbol of the lion, throughout history, throughout cultures, is one pure, radiant symbol and that is leadership, kingship
~ Linda Tucker
America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.
~ Condoleezza Rice
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.
~ Anselm Kiefer
You may be an unintentional avatar, but you are an avatar nonetheless.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
In this way, the Hearsts became the symbol of the overly lenient parents of the era and a counterpoint to the Republican administration's voice of discipline and order.
~ Jeffrey Toobin
So, Rosalind became a symbol, first of an argumentative swot, then of a downtrodden woman scientist, and finally of a triumphant heroine in a man's world. She was none of these things and would have hated all of them. She was simply a very good scientist with an ambition, as she told Colin from her hospital bed, to be a Fellow of the Royal Society before she was 40. But she died at thirty-seven.
~ Jenifer Glynn
It's a special key.' 'How so?' 'It has an L on it. L for love. See? It's the key to the universe, Dad.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
She said, Coming across the yard you had your hat off, but as you reached the door you put it on. I guess I did, didn't I? You were being...I want to say official, and your hat's like a badge of office. You like to set it forward a little, close over your eyes. I've had that hat eight years, Raylan said. I never thought I wore it any special way, I just put it on my head.
~ Elmore Leonard
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
~ Emil Cioran
He was a symbol of independence and possibility. The ultimate fantasy.
~ Emily Giffin
I once offhandedly mentioned that I wanted to pick out my own ring, something I have to look at every day, but there is something decidedly unromantic and a little bit depressing about having a symbol of love reduced to such scientific classifications - especially classifications focusing on imperfections.
~ Emily Giffin