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• We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

  Rick Yancey

  Masterpiece

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• There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.

  Andy Roddick

  Issues, Tennis, Doubt

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• Who am I? It matters not that you know who I am; it is of little importance. This clay garment is one of a penniless pilgrim journeying in the name of peace. It is what you cannot see that is so very important. I am one who is propelled by the power of faith; I bathe in the light of eternal wisdom; I am sustained by the unending energy of the universe; this is who I really am.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Light, Who I Am, Names

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.126, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.

  Pablo Neruda

  Wall, Flower, Night

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses: Love Poems”, p.135, New Directions Publishing

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• The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Heaven, Soul, Dying

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• Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Book, Artist, Men

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• I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.

  Grayson Perry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Understanding, Gold

  1821 'Epipsychidion', l.160-1.

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• There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.

  Jessica Stockholder

  Tree, Feelings, Shells

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits, huffing and puffing along the mountain ranges of epic narrative arcs prepared for us by the Infinite Word Himself.

  N.D. Wilson

  Epic, Mountain Ranges, Self

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Strong, Pain, Self

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• So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Waiting, Temptation, Want

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• Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Cake, Odor, Soup

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

  Lisa See

  Broken, Flawless, Jade

  Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.114, A&C Black

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• Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Men, Made, Diamond

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• It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

  Bruce Lee

  Broken, Pieces, Useless

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• I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

  Janet Fitch

  Mother, Hands, Water

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• When we worked at the pottery, we did learn to make pots, that is, the physical act of making the pot. We learned to control clay, to put it where you want it and not just wherever it wanted to go, and that was valuable. At the end of about six months, though, I think if that was all we had, we may have been inclined to leave because the workshop did not challenge us so much as living with [Bernard] Leach did.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Challenges, Six Months

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel.
  [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri
  Fingendus sine fine rota.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Art, Character, Glowing

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• ... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.

  Marisha Pessl

  Real, Kids, Math

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• Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body.

  Shailene Woodley

  Hippie, Body, Cider

  "From the Earth to Your Mouth" by Bee Shapiro, www.nytimes.com. August 27, 2014.

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• Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

  Jacques Barzun

  Block, Stupid, Writing

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• Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we to keep it in one piece, as a pot! All jobs are ours! Life only gives things and it has no other responsibility!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Jobs, Responsibility

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• Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Queens, Kings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.525, Library of Alexandria

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• You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.

  Pam Brown

  Mom, Mother, Appreciation

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