Lump Of Clay Quotes

#1. A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

Laozi

#2. The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak

Leila Aboulela

#3. I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

James Weldon Johnson

#5. Writing a novel is like pottery. Your initial draft of your story is like a lump of clay. Editing is like shaping that piece of clay into something interesting and beautiful.

Monika Pardon

#6. Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.

Brett Dennen

#7. A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

Bhartrhari

#8. 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

#9. Artists," he said, "are people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage. But by golly, I can make this square of canvas, or this eight-and-a-half-by-eleven piece of paper, or this lump of clay, or these twelve bars of music, exactly what they ought to be!

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. You came to us a lump of clay, and we molded you into an instrument of Death.

Robin LaFevers

#11. You can have a zillion nothings and still have nothing

Saadi

#12. You are not your bank account, our 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

#13. The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

Ed Victor

#14. Stand and answer! Why are ye come? By whom are ye sent to trouble me? I am a knight of the Great King. In the King's Name, speak!

~Sir Constant

W.E. Cule

#15. A constellation of Utopians is a group which only seems a group to us because we seek familiar institutions in their government, as we use the shapes of beasts and heroes to make false sense of the sea of stars.

Ada Palmer

#16. These kids who never did anything to anyone except be born with different brains and different wiring,

Jennifer Niven

#17. I admire you. And I admire the battle you are waging with your heart.

Paulo Coelho

#18. If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

Marisol Nichols

#19. I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

#20. Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Thomas Carlyle

#21. Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

Therese Of Lisieux

#22. I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.

Sun Ra

#23. My mate is really, really weird.
She is also absolutely covered in brown, mushy clay.
She laughs and holds a large lump up to show it to me. Her mouth moves, and she makes enough noise to scare away a group of birds near the shore.
She is so, so strange.

Shay Savage