Bronze Quotes - Page 4

There is a way to play this game physically, but it's the mental part that's going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze.

Lisa Fernandez

Softball, Games, Play

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We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich.

Bernard Goldberg

Beautiful, Hero, Honor

"Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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I don't believe in a lot of things from the Bronze Age, but an eye for an eye does make a sort of symmetrical sense to me. I really believe that if somebody takes a life, that [death penalty] is what they should get. I also think it's a lot more humane than keeping people in a cage for the rest of their life.

Bill Maher

Believe, Eye, Thinking

Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.

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Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!

Nikolai Gogol

Song, Horse, Home

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When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain.

Robinson Jeffers

Mother, Rain, Thinking

Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.

Charles R. Swindoll

Christian, Winning, Joy

Charles R. Swindoll (1992). “Inspirational Writings of Charles R. Swindoll”, Arrowood Press

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Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

Pliny the Elder

Dog, Fall, Wine

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The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

Giovannino Guareschi

Writing, Men, Offending

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Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

Louise Bogan

Fall, Air, Water

Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

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...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

Garrison Keillor

Smart, Keys, Opening Up

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After Russia (winning bronze at Rostelecom Cup), I'm one of the top Canadian ladies. Tomorrow, I just have to do a good long program.

Alaine Chartrand

Winning, Russia, Long

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His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is.

Joe Fafard

Real, Work, Past

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I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

Ron Kovic

Stars, Heart, Two

"Ron Kovic: Peace movement will be largest ever". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2003.

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I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.

Bryan Volpenhein

Bronze Medal, Disappointed, Medal

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You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

George Edward Woodberry

Cities, Names, Liberty

George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mother, Father, Coats

Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.63, Faber & Faber

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Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.

Rick Riordan

Fun, Jumping, Wings

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Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. This time what I saw up there was even worse: two bulls. And not just regular bulls - bronze ones the size of elephants. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breathe fire, too.

Rick Riordan

Summer, Hate, Fire

Rick Riordan (2008). “Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters”, p.34, Penguin UK

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A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her right leg was shaped like a human leg was it was made of bronze. "Uhh, a vampire with-" "Don't mention the legs!" Tammi snapped. "It's rude to make fun.

Rick Riordan

Fun, Rude, Vampire

Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.16, Penguin UK

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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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When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.

Susan Cooper

Song, Dark, Sea

Susan Cooper (2007). “The Dark Is Rising: Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

Homer

Lying, Men, Civilization

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Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her laptop bag slung over her shoulder—ready for stabbing or surfing the Internet, whichever came first.

Rick Riordan

Knives, Surfing, Black

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What in the world are you thinking?” She sounded pretty flustered. “I try not to think,” Leo admitted. “It interferes with being nuts. Just concentrate on moving that Celestial bronze. Echo, you ready?

Rick Riordan

Moving, Thinking, Nuts

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Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!

Virgil

Fashion, Art, Stars

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