Symbols Quotes - Page 30

• The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

  Tupac Shakur

  Mother, People, World

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• "Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Blood, Suffering, Deities

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• It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free.

  Christina Ricci

  Teenage, Years, Childhood

  "Christina Ricci's New Tattoo", www.femalefirst.co.uk. April 8, 2007.

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• The skin is a true symbol of our health because it's the last place to get nutrition and if you can drive all those nutrients all the way through to the skin then you know it's gotten everywhere else too and that's something that we all recognise.

  David Wolfe

  Skins, Way, Lasts

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• To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

  W. H. Auden

  Fairy Tale, Tales, Hunts

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• I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it's a trend.

  Virat Kohli

  Tattoo, Warrior, Skills

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• The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy, holy day celebrations, its early Fathers, prophets and martyrs, its priesthood and its lay sodality, its myths of sacred genesis and apocalyptic crises, its world-saving mission and its missionaries.

  Michael Parenti

  Father, Hymns, Holy Days

  Michael Parenti (1970). “The Anti-communist Impulse”

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• I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

  Yingluck Shinawatra

  Female, Compromise, Repeats

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• That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

  George Eliot

  Blessed, Sky, Golden

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Sleep, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.71

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• Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life, Time, Sadness

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.6, Profile Books

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• I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

  Ellen Goodman

  Home, Imagination, Plot

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• The American spring is like the country itself: abundant, rich, flowing over you like a full tide. ... Azaleas were suddenly ablaze. White dogwoods stood like brides in the wood - these trees of all colors were new to me; one does not meet them in Europe, and dogwood cannot even be transplanted to other continents. White and pink magnolias, yellowish rhododendrons, all of them lived happily side by side with our ordinary lilacs and lilies of the valley - the Russian symbols of spring.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Country, Spring, Azaleas

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• Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.

  Margaret Mead

  Sight, Walking Sticks, Handbags

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.

  Eduardo Saverin

  People, Trying, Bankers

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• Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Children, Father, Greatness

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• I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

  Zack Snyder

  Christian, Earth, Crosses

  "‘Steel’ this movie". Interview with Reed Tucker, nypost.com. November 25, 2012.

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• We [Christians] have the dilemma of using a symbol system that was not made for our worldview, to give our worldview... I think the thing we're waiting for is a genius to come forth who can either make a new symbol system which is still modern, or more properly, as symbol systems don't come overnight, a group of people to modify the symbol systems of our day, so that we can use them for our Christian message without a disadvantage.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Thinking, People

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• Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Meditation

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• The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Keys, Meditation

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• At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Eagles, America

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• A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

  Tommy Lee

  Artist, Animal, Thinking

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• I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.

  Grant Morrison

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

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• The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.

  John Cowper Powys

  Spiritual, Mistake, Past

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• Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

  Slobodan Milosević

  Country, Past, Way

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