Quotes About Symbol

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique symbol - something strong. It's about going all the way.

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

The raised arm and the clenched hand was a symbol of unity with the fingers coming together and a symbol of strength. It was never - I don't believe it was ever meant as a threatening gesture.

What better symbol of unity, what better symbol of growth, than to have Mike Espy in the United States Senate.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.

Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

I cannot understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything. ... It is a devastating burden and I could not take it, could not be a pioneer, a Symbol of Something Greater.

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

A kiss is the only thing you can throw at someone without being held criminally responsible.

A woman is the symbol of love, beauty, harmony, nature, and care.

For women, men creates war, even though women are the symbols of love, peace, and harmony.

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

Sanders was a living symbol of what the Democrats used to stand for, and party leaders didn't seem to appreciate being reminded of how far they had strayed.

The Chinese dragon 'long' is essentially a force of the good.

By the dawn of the twentieth century, even before the Jazz Age made champagne the symbol of an era, the world was already buying twenty million bottles of bubbly a year.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, this palace hotel on the spacious Place Vendôme in the city's first arrondissement, or "district," had been an international symbol of luxury and all that was glamorous about modernity,

The act of eating the bread and drinking the wine are a powerful symbol of finding satisfaction in Christ.

Chollima is actually a national animal of North Korea. It's a mythical flying horse.

Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'