Copper Quotes - Page 2

• The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Nature, Gentle Touch

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Gold, Coins

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh ; In Three Books ...”, p.129

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• Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Zinc, Politician, Canyons

  "Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.

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• Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

  Jodi Picoult

  Blood, Smell, Burning

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• I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Writing, Easy

  Source: boingboing.net

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• Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted to see them ordinarily any more than we can see the dimensions of a nuclear field, the structure of atoms, or the electricity that flows through copper wiring.

  Billy Graham

  Eye, Angel, Choices

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• It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.

  Edmund Burke

  Light, Air, Views

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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• There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a book in the other. It is not a statesman or a god or a war hero who welcomes us to this new world. It is but an ordinary woman lighting the way- a lady offering us the liberty to pursue our dreams if we've the courage to begin.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, War, Book

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• Chocolate is an extraordinary source of key stress-fighting minerals including: magnesium, iron, chromium, vanadium, copper, zinc, manganese, and phosphorus. These minerals favorably influence a woman's hormone system, which explains why chocolate has always been considered important for a woman's monthly cycle.

  David Wolfe

  Stress, Fighting, Iron

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• When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.

  Michio Kaku

  Years, Wire, Pounds

  "'Physics Of The Future': How We'll Live In 2100?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2011.

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• When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

  Ernestine Rose

  Men, Trying, Thieves

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• If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Religion, Lightning

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.

  Joseph Conrad

  Inspirational, Funny, Hair

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.1055, e-artnow

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• Not like I need an excuse to enjoy a Moscow mule, but this tray and six-mug set, handmade in Mexico with hammered recycled copper, makes cocktail hour extra special.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Special, Six, Needs

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• In the last four days I have got the spectrum given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, and Copper and part of the Silver spectrum. The chief result is that all the elements give the same kind of spectrum, the result for any metal being quite easy to guess from the results for the others. This shows that the insides of all the atoms are very much alike, and from these results it will be possible to find out something of what the insides are made up of.

  Henry Moseley

  Science, Iron, Giving

  "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915" by J. L. Heilbron, University of California Press, (p. 209), 1974.

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• Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.

  Jan Brewer

  Beautiful, Writing, Government

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• The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Uranium Mining, Gold, World

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• Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

  Chanakya

  Rivers, Ashes, Flow

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• Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

  Charles Dickens

  Food, Doors, Smell

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.54, Penguin

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• My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

  Keariene Muizz

  Art, Soul, Teeth

  New York Arts Magazine, December 2008.

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• Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Men, Age, Saint

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• Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

  Jasper Johns

  Color, Names, Leaving

  "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoe, 1996.

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• Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?

  Stewart Brand

  Block, House, Greek

  "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto". Book by Stewart Brand, 2009.

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• I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.

  Isak Dinesen

  Morning, Eye, Dark

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

  Countee Cullen

  Strong, Stars, Men

  1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

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