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Quotes About Bronze

Up from the bronze, I sawWater without a flawRush to its rest in air,Reach to its rest, and fall.
~ Louise Bogan
In the bottom right-hand corner was a decent-sized color photo of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Trudeau posing with their new acquisition. Brianna, ever photogenic, as she damned well be, emanated glamour. Carl looked rich, thin, and young, he thought, and Imelda was as baffling in print as she was in person. Was she really a work of art? Or was she just a hodgepodge of bronze and cement thrown together by some confused soul working hard to appear tortured?
~ John Grisham
Like the bronze statue of the Angel of the Waters, those who pursue perfection find themselves paralysed by the possibility of flaw, fault or failure.
~ Unknown
El pelo le centelleaba como agua vertida sobre bronce pulido.
~ Madeline Miller
Firewater Sometimes I think how alcohol's a marvelous solvent, can remove red people from a continent, turn bronze to guilt. What was DuPont's old motto—Better things for better living through chemistry? You take potatoes from Peru, barley from Palestine, maize from Mexico, sugar cane from
~ Unknown
The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.
~ Jimmy Carr
If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.
~ Jerry Coleman
Twilight ran along the harp's bronze strings and the bard's voice rose and dropped, not unlike the fells to the east, making a twisting, hypnotic rhythm of poised and perfect words.
~ Nicola Griffith
Soon after that he drank some soda-water, and went to bed: I did so too, and, I shame to confess, slept soundly, unhaunted by so much as a dream of the poor patient Bronze, whom we had left in the chilly bleak dawn, alone with his hunger and sorrow. We hear a very great chatter of "sympathy" in this world: is there aught of it, I wonder, that is anything beyond fellow-feeling?
~ Ouida
Dropping toward the watershed, the sun filled the place with evening light and kindled the windows and the western flanks of cupolas and steeples and many belfries, darkening the eastern walls with shadow; and as we gazed, one of them began to strike the hour and another took up the challenge, followed by a third and soon enormous tonnages of sectarian bronze were tolling their ancient rivalries into the dusk.
~ Unknown
There was a gate to this court, and past this gate was the entrance to the Tabernacle, past the first gate stood the altar of burnt offering and the laver of bronze.
~ Unknown
There was also a Marino Marini, which I bought from him in Milan. I went to borrow one for the sculpture show, but ended up by buying the only thing available. It was a statue of a horse and rider, the latter with his arms spread way out in ecstasy, and to emphasize this, Marino had added a phallus in full erection. But when he had it cast in bronze for me he had the phallus made separately, so that it could be screwed in and out at leisure.
~ Peggy Guggenheim
This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, and bronze;
~ Exodus 25:3
Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases for them.
~ Exodus 26:37
Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.
~ Exodus 27:2
Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
~ Exodus 27:3
Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.
~ Exodus 27:4
Additionally, make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze.
~ Exodus 27:6
with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
~ Exodus 27:10
Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
~ Exodus 27:11
All the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.
~ Exodus 27:17
The entire courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely spun linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.
~ Exodus 27:18
All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.
~ Exodus 27:19
“You are to make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. Set it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it,
~ Exodus 30:18