Symbolizing Quotes

#1. The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. There was a red snake of blood symbolizing her life, and its end.

Viveca Benoir

#3. Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

Charles B. Rangel

#4. The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.

Eugene Kennedy

#5. I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.

M.C. Escher

#6. Remember Motown? Not just the driving music that swept the nation and the world, but the vibrant energy of the Motor City itself, symbolizing the heyday of America. Today, a derelict Detroit is testament to what America has squandered and what it has become.

Gerald Celente

#7. In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.

Frederick Lenz

#8. What can be more solemn and absurd, considered in the abstract, than, symbolizing the existence of the other sex by taking off a portion of your clothing and waving it in the air?

G.K. Chesterton

#9. All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things.

Chris Murray

#11. Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.

Haruki Murakami

#12. I prefer to die of thirst in my own planet than to be a character more in this sad story.

Ricardo Cdcbsi 83592 Arjona

#13. Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing becoming another. Like a flame on the end of a match. Wood turning into smoke. If only we could burn brighter. A barn roaring in the night.

Mark Haddon

#14. Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Charles Kingsley

#15. Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

#16. Life has its own flavor.

Juhi Chawla

#17. To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

Robert G. Thompson

#18. Comedies are fit for common wits:
But to present a kingly troop withal,
Give me a stately-written tragedy;
Tragadia cothurnata, fitting kings,
Containing matter, and not common things.

Thomas Kyd