Clay Quotes - Page 6

• Thirty spokes meet in the hub,
  but the empty space between them
  is the essence of the wheel.
  
  Pots are formed from clay,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the pot.
  
  Walls with windows and doors
  form the house,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the home.

  Laozi

  Wall, Home, Essence

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• Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

  Novak Djokovic

  Sports, Player, Games

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• If you are not physically strong, it's difficult. But at the same time, I think you need something more than that; you need to vary your shots, as Justine has been able to do in Amelia or Charleston, where she beat her -- I can't remember where it was on clay. So you need this kind of thing. But of course if you're not fit, you'll never make it through.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Strong, Thinking, Able

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• When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Feet, Numbers, People

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• Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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• My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Looks, Look Up

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• Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Ideas, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

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• The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mistake, Men, Reflection

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.472, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• I have only two regrets:
  I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

  Andrew Jackson

  Regret, Two

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• After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

  Andrew Jackson

  Regret, Eight, Government

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• Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

  Floyd Patterson

  Boxing, Black, Cassius

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• For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

  Aino Kallas

  Fashion, Cat, Devil

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• Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

  William Christopher Handy

  Home, Wind, Snakes

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

  James Alexander Thom

  Past, Stories, Form

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• You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

  Anne Lamott

  Personality, Spirit, Cold

  Anne Lamott's Commencement Address at University of California in Berkeley, California, www.salon.com. July 6, 2003.

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• Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

  Dave Beard

  Men, Poetry, Mind

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• Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Kings, Hero, Men

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.160, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• What's this?" Nick said. "Bedtime?" No one answered him. I kept my eyes closed. You look positively content, Clayton," Nick continued, thumping down on the floor. "That wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Elena is cuddled up with you, is it?" It's cold in here," I murmured. Doesn't feel cold." It's cold," Clay growled. I could start a fire." I could start one too," Clay said. "With your clothes. Before you get them off.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Eye, Fire, Clothes

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.375, Vintage Canada

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• Half of them kept repeating my name, trying to get it right, while the other half laughed. But they were harmless. Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party: Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh. I remember those guys. Like the mascots of the party. "Clay! Whatcha doon here? Bah-ha-ha-ha!

  Jay Asher

  Fun, Nice, Party

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.108, Penguin

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• Yet, O thou beautiful rose!
  Queen rose so fair and sweet.
  What were lover or crown to thee,
  without the clay at thy feet?

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Beautiful, Sweet, Queens

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• We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.

  Janet Morris

  Nature, War, Men

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.187, Paradise Publishing

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• Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

  Heinrich Heine

  Death, Summer, Blessed

  Heinrich Heine (1891). “The Works of Heinrich Heine”

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• Though thou loved her as thyself,
  As a self of purer clay,
  Tho' her parting dims the day,
  Stealing grace from all alive,
  Heartily know,
  When half-gods go,
  The gods arrive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Self, Grace

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1905). “An Emerson Calendar”

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