Adumbration Quotes

#1. In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

#2. Everything that happens in the Old Testament is a "type" or adumbration of something that happens in the New Testament, and the whole subject is therefore called typology, though it is a typology in a special sense.

Northrop Frye

#3. Though I'm a New Englander, I'm very indoorsy once the mercury drops.

Julia Glass

#4. She felt a calmness in him now, a centered lack of fear, that touched her heart with love, and with some queer darkness, as well. He was so different, her son, so special ... but the world did not love people like that. The world tried to root them out, like tares from a garden.

Stephen King

#5. I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

William Shakespeare

#6. Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#7. Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act.

Barack Obama

#8. I don't know how the other senators see me. I hope they see me as a farmer. That's really what I am. But I don't think they see me on a tractor or fixing equipment. I hope they see me grounded, as somebody who has common sense.

Jon Tester

#9. Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following.

Auliq Ice

#10. In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear as drink and sustenance.

Shantideva

#11. Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Mariah Carey

#12. Take a moment to think about your answer to this question: Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it?

Tony Dungy

#13. I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

Alden Ehrenreich

#14. The symptoms of food poisoning often don't appear for days after the contaminated meal was eaten. As a result, most cases of food poisoning are never properly diagnosed.

Eric Schlosser