Top 100 Quotes About Clay
#1. Shadow! or Spirit!
Whatever thou art,
Which still doth inherit
The whole or a part
Of the form of thy birth,
Of the mould of thy clay,
Which returned to the earth,
Re-appear to the day!
George Gordon Byron
#2. We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.
Pope Francis
#3. I am a humble artist moulding my earthly clod, adding my labour to nature's, simply assisting God. Not that my labour is needed, yet somehow I understand, my Maker has deemed it that I too should have Unmoulded clay in my hand.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#4. Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Tho' her parting dims the day,
Stealing grace from all alive,
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do we make ourselves, by the choices we our selves make? Or are we clay merely, that is molded and pushed into the shape that our betters propose for us?
Geraldine Brooks
#8. Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier
mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay.
If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.
David Bowie
#9. Clay sat back in his chair and propped his feet on his desk as he took a sip from his coffee cup. If these two assholes wanted to kill each other, he didn't care as long as they didn't get blood on the floor, or move one piece of furniture.
Alex Morgan
#10. About Daniel: Two, he hates Clay
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Five, he really hates Clay.
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Nine, he really, really, REALLY hates Clay.
Kelley Armstrong
#11. I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achieved intrinsic as much as the value of the clay as the wheel and master craftsmanship?
Stephen King
#12. Annabeth rubbed the clay beads on her necklace, the way she does when she's thinking. She looked beautiful. But I digress.
Rick Riordan
#13. Suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.
Marisha Pessl
#14. Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.
Thomas Huxley
#15. The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time. Mystery is the essence of divinity. Gods must keep their distances from men.
Zora Neale Hurston
#16. I know Clay hurt you. He's a difficult boy. But he loves you. As much as you love him. I see the way you look at each other. And it's a beautiful thing.
A Meredith Walters
#17. I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.
Jim Shepard
#18. In the modern game, you're a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist
or a hard court specialist ... or you're Roger Federer.
Jimmy Connors
#20. Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.
Chaim Potok
#21. We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.
Ruth Pitter
#22. It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed.
David Levering Lewis
#23. All about him stretched the lush green countryside in which there were to every acre a thousand hiding-places, deep and wide and quiet enough to hold so small and worthless a thing as a single unit of mortal clay. I
Margery Allingham
#24. I still think too much about the mothers And ask what is man born of woman. He curls himself up and protects his head While he is kicked by heavy boots; on fire and running, He burns with bright flame; a bulldozer sweeps him into a clay pit. Her child. Embracing a teddy bear. Conceived in ecstasy.
Czeslaw Milosz
#25. To get wealth and security by guileIs like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.
Thiruvalluvar
#26. My heart is an ocean of sorrows slowly drowning me, and I let it." - Thia Clay
Alice Rachel
#27. These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.
Richard MacDonald
#28. I lifted my head from Clay. "You okay?" I whispered. He turned his head and licked my cheek, reassuring me. "Next
Melissa Haag
#29. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning. The
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#30. The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books written about them.
Janet Malcolm
#31. You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.
Stella Benson
#32. My name is Clay Jannon and those were the days when I rarely touched paper.
Robin Sloan
#33. You don't need to watch out for me, Clay."
But I did, Hannah. And I wanted to. I could have helped you. But when I tried, you pushed me away.
I can almost hear Hannah's voice speaking my nest thought for me. "Then why didn't you try harder?
Jay Asher
#34. I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.
Bonnie Wright
#35. I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
Abraham Lincoln
#36. The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.
Bruce Coville
#37. Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Rafael Nadal
#38. If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul, now that Jesus has come, the Bible was more like clay to be molded.
Peter Enns
#39. Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
Muhammad Ali
#40. Queen, goodbye forever!
Your wings were sunbeams, and my feet are clay
I'll never be well if I don't get to bed
I never was well unless I was stretched out across the universe.
Fernando Pessoa
#41. Is the Tube human? Semihuman? Well, uh, how human's that, so forth. Are TV sets brought alive by broadcast signals, like the clay bodies of men and women animated by the spirit of God's love?
Thomas Pynchon
#42. For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.
Dan Simmons
#43. My soul longs for God, but a man is not just his soul, is he? Terrible to say, my clay lusts after the clay of nubile girl. To soothe my guilt, and please forgive my indelicacy, I have convinced myself that I seek to find God again in their arms and their unmentionable places.
K.J. Bishop
#44. From the corner of her eye, she watched Clay walk to his wagon, where he'd find no shade.
Isolated.
Alone.
How simple it would be to prepare him a plate and walk to the wagon to give it to him.
How difficult to step into his world of loneliness.
Lorraine Heath
#45. I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'
Michael Chabon
#46. Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.
Chris Evert
#47. There is the house whose people sit in darkness; dust is their food and clay is their meat. They are clothed like birds with wings for covering, they see no light, they sit in darkness. I entered the house of dust and I saw the kings of the earth, their crowns put away for ever ...
Anonymous
#48. What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
Nathan Sawaya
#49. The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
Marshall McLuhan
#50. You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?
William Butler Yeats
#51. That's a long time to be so hard, Clay. I bet you need me to do something about that.
Lauren Blakely
#52. She wasn't clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be.
Dean Koontz
#53. About your easy heads my prayers
I said with syllables of clay.
What gift, I asked, shall I bring now
Before I weep and walk away?
Take, they replied, the oak and laurel.
Take our fortune of tears and live
Like a spendthrift lover. All we ask
Is the one gift you cannot give.
Tana French
#54. Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.
Andreas Feininger
#55. YOU WILL DRINK THE COFFEE UNTIL I CAN SEE MY FACE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE CUP!" I did not mean to roar. "But it's a clay cup." "I DO NOT CARE!" He finished the coffee. "You did not have to finish it," I said, because I could perceive that he was rebuilding the Great Wall of China with shit bricks.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#56. So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!
Edmund Vance Cooke
#57. The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels
that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!
Bill Vaughan
#58. My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
Margaret Walker
#59. Why the clay?" "That is also what I am," Vashet said. "Only that which bends can teach.
Patrick Rothfuss
#60. Maybe I'm like a rough piece of clay. But I can be refined, and shaped, and become better with you.
Lauren Blakely
#61. My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
Gail Sheehy
#62. Yes, you have been molding your ability to perform Jiu Jitsu for all these years, but you have been more importantly molding who you are as a person. Jiu Jitsu is the sculptor, and you are the clay. It is with this art that we strive and reach for our highest ideals not as athletes, but as people.
Chris Matakas
#63. You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
John Updike
#64. Speechless, castaway and wry
a spellbound oddity am I
my feet are locked upon the clay
my gaze is locked upon the sky
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#65. Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.
Virchand Gandhi
#66. ... [Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can't avoid that.
Richard Linklater
#67. I am uncertain whether I took my first steps on clay soil or sand, but I know I have long wondered if home is the place from which we come or the place we are headed.
Christie Purifoy
#68. Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.
John Wayne
#69. Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#70. When your soul and mine
have left our bodies and we are
burried alongside each other,
a Potter may one day mould
the dust of both of us
into the same clay.
Omar Khayyam
#71. Oh her deathbed, when her hands could no longer weave or paint or mold clay, she'd told stories and filled them with the colors she loved.
Veronica Rossi
#72. I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
Tamara Feldman
#73. Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing ... Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.
Laozi
#74. Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.
Saib Tabrizi
#75. A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.
Og Mandino
#76. He can't keep it in his pants for a few months?" "He's twenty-two and full-blooded Italian," Romeo reminded Clay, thinking it was obvious. "No, he can't.
Kele Moon
#77. Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.
Laozi
#78. Yet, O thou beautiful rose!
Queen rose so fair and sweet.
What were lover or crown to thee,
without the clay at thy feet?
Julia Caroline Dorr
#79. I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay.
Rafael Nadal
#80. Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.
Hannah Storm
#81. Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
John Milton
#83. It'll be all right, Clay. Really." "So you say, but you have a persecution complex and delusions of grandeur." "That's true," Tom said, "but they're balanced out by poor self-image and ego menstruation at roughly six week intervals ...
Stephen King
#84. There are many things that bother me. I know that I have never passed a man on the street that I liked - most of them giving off a kind of ether of disgust and stumbling and clay-eating, snot-eating grievance. I don't like the human race at all. this is my confessional, father, pass the wine.
Charles Bukowski
#85. She had known that being with Clay would be good, that it would eclipse the other times into nothingness, but this was beyond good, beyond anything. All she could think was - no wonder women liked sex. But of course, this was nothing so simple as sex. This was ... Oh, man.
Nalini Singh
#86. Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.
Tom Selleck
#87. This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?
Mary McCarthy
#88. Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
Laozi
#89. God breathed on clay and it became a man; He breathes on men and they become clay.
A.W. Tozer
#90. I'd love to create my own stuff. I've always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little deeper in the clay, so to speak.
Reece Thompson
#91. I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.
Joe Manchin
#92. Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people ... He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.
Floyd Patterson
#93. One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.
Peter Carey
#94. Nope," Clay said. "We're free now. I'm only going to eat what I want to eat from now on." As long as it's slow enough for me to catch it, he thought ruefully.
Tui T. Sutherland
#95. No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it's just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts. Mrs. Neville
Robert McCammon
#96. There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.
Jessica Stockholder
#97. I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.
Erykah Badu
#99. Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.
Laozi
#100. Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.
Lleyton Hewitt
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