Quotes About Symbol

The pine is the mother of legends.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable—even a status symbol—when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant life

He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

My name, Paloma, means 'dove' in Spanish. It stands as a symbol of peace and purity.

The peace sign is with two fingers not one.

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

A baby is a symbol of peace, a plot of dreams, a light of hope, and a bundle of joy.

Be not a person only, be a message to the world.

A friend gave me a rainbow as a gift, so I put it up in the sky so everyone could share.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

If you want the world to be loving and peaceful, I'll give you my heart and soul. For the heart is a symbol of truth and caring

The symbol of peace cannot be daunted by evil. I smile to show the pressure of heroes and to trick the fear inside of me.