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Quotes About Symbol

Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.
~ Olive Schreiner
Authority was a little plastic ball that Graff carried.
~ Orson Scott Card
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
~ Oscar Wilde
A mark is just a symbol, and symbols can change.
~ Cressida Cowell
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Tetragram is a four-letter word.
~ The Dictionary
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
~ Hart Crane
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?
~ Harvey Weinstein
The text of the Bible is but a feeble symbol of the Revelation held in the text of Men and Women.
~ Havelock Ellis
I want to light the lights of patriotism.
~ Lech Walesa
Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.
~ Lemony Snicket
Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.
~ Lemony Snicket
except instead of the word "love" there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.
~ Lemony Snicket
The Jew – is the symbol of eternity…. He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind…. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Measurement has become such a powerful symbol of justice that it can represent your moral deeds in life as well as your spiritual rewards and punishment. It's perhaps due to this symbolic potency that the Bible mentions measurement more often than it does charity.
~ James Vincent
As a symbol of the new United States, Americans chose the eagle clutching a bundle of arrows. They knew that both the eagle and the arrows were symbols of the Iroquois League. Although one arrow is easily broken, no one can break six (or thirteen) at once.
~ James W. Loewen
She truly is a symbol of the resilience of nature—and a reminder of all that was lost on that terrible day twenty years ago.
~ Jane Goodall
Unlike others, I wear my gold at all times. That's why it's become my image and people call me the Gold Man.
~ Bappi Lahiri
Mount Rushmore is eternal. It will stand until the end of time.
~ Gutzon Borglum
He was so obsessed with Michael and all things Halloween that he'd gotten a tattoo of a Thorn rune on his left arm,
~ Tim Waggoner
Our dove, however, has a simple home, always in high and open places toward the light since this symbol of the Holy Spirit loves the sunrise, the symbol of Christ. Just so, truth blushes at nothing except being hidden away, because no one is ashamed to listen to her, to learn to recognize as God the one whom nature has already pointed out to him as God, the one whom he sees daily in all his works. For
~ Tobias Churton
A photograph is a cipher for which we consult our own code books.
~ Tom Ang
The symbol is not an artificially constructed sign: it flowers in the soul spontaneously to announce something that cannot be expressed otherwise. It is the unique expression of the thing symbolized as of a reality that thus becomes transparent to the soul, but which itself transcends all expression.
~ Tom Cheetham