Clay Quotes - Page 14

• Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.
  The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

  Vance Havner

  Heart, Ice, May

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• I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.

  Hugh Elliot

  Thumbprints, Left, Thick

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• Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?

  Laurence Sterne

  Kindness, Passion, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.339

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• Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• I'm the son of a pastor and evangelist and I've described many times how my father, when I was a child, was an alcoholic. He was not a Christian. And my father left my mother and left me when I was just three years old. And someone invited him to Clay Road Baptist Church. And he gave his heart to Jesus and it turned him around. And he got on a plane and he flew back to my mother and me.

  Ted Cruz

  Christian, Mother, Jesus

  Ted Cruz at GOP primary debate in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I don't know how to animate on the computer, and I'm really grateful that I worked with a couple of other guys. We called it our triumvirate, John Kahrs and Clay Kaytis, who really understood computer animation but loved and embraced hand drawn, which is Disney's heritage.

  Glen Keane

  Couple, Grateful, Hands

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Guy, Desire, Pieces

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. ... In this way the soul can become like soft clay in the hands of the Master.

  James E. Faust

  Adversity, Hands, Soul

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• The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Needs, Use

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• Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Giving, Bears

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.139

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• I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing on the wheel and making my own glazes, ordering the chemicals and having the students go out and dig and process their clay, and doing things that they weren't teaching at Howard University. So Talladega College opened up my whole sensibility about experimental teaching.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Jobs, Teaching

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Writing, Discovery, Tasks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we like, the tougher ones will fight back and end up spiteful and wild, while the less strong will lose that uniqueness they were born with.

  Melvin Konner

  Strong, Children, Fighting

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• Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it meets the mane ofthe grass; the diluted reflection of the sky together with the fleeting sight of the reeds; the Negresses fill their dripping gourds and their red clay containers; the song of the washerwomen; the gorged fields the tall crops ripening.

  Jacques Roumain

  Song, Nature, Garden

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• 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

  Simple, Bricks, Potters

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.99, Lulu.com

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• If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

  Sonny Liston

  Cassius, Murder, Liable

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• And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

  John Boorman

  God, Poor, Show Business

  "Fictional character: Arthur Frayn". "Zardoz", www.imdb.com. 1974.

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• If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Art, Shapes

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• Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Travel, Moving, Water

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• You should not look at what the person used to do, rather you should
  look at what kind of person they are today. The one who gets bogged
  down about people's pasts, is just like Iblees who said to Allaah,
  “You created me from fire and you created him from clay”.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Past, Fire, People

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• I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.

  Nat Hentoff

  Fire, Two, Voice

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• 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

  Stars, Hero, Feet

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• In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.

  Michael Chabon

  Dream, New York, Book

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Crush, Language, Notes

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant of something other than itself. This object must be a sign as well as an object; a meaning must animate it, and make it say more than it is.

  Jacques Maritain

  Artist, Fishing, Vases

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