Hammer And Chisel Quotes

#1. Nails are forged for pounding. Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded - under torch and hammer and chisel - into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.

N.D. Wilson

#2. But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

Rudyard Kipling

#3. Love and kindness are the hammer and chisel that gently chip through barriers and long-held beliefs to reveal the magnificent soul contained within every human.

Molly Friedenfeld

#4. Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

Peter McWilliams

#5. Any system that contradicts itself can never be wrong, and welcome to the world of contradictions ...

Steve Merrick

#6. What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorant and the uneducated?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

John Ruskin

#8. A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#9. In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer. [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]

Anthony Marra

#10. The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.

Agona Apell

#11. Let's here it for modern dentistry, eh? I said, and he grimaced. Actually, as much as people dislike going to the dentist now, try doing it two hundred years ago, when having a cavity meant some quack knocking it out with a chisel and a hammer in the market square. With no anesthetic.

Cate Tiernan

#12. Obsession is just what those too timorous to follow an idea through to its logical conclusion call determination.

Iain M. Banks

#13. If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

Michelangelo

#14. Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.

Diane Glancy

#15. behind the wall." The next day, Hem and Haw returned with tools. Hem held the chisel, while Haw banged on the hammer until they made a hole in the wall of Cheese Station C. They peered inside but found no Cheese. They were disappointed but believed they could solve the problem. So they started

Spencer Johnson

#16. Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

Buddy Rich

#17. My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves

Christopher Poindexter

#18. Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto