Clay Quotes - Page 6

• Thirty spokes meet in the hub,
  but the empty space between them
  is the essence of the wheel.
  
  Pots are formed from clay,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the pot.
  
  Walls with windows and doors
  form the house,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the home.

  Laozi

  Wall, Home, Essence

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• For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

  Aino Kallas

  Fashion, Cat, Devil

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• We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

  James Alexander Thom

  Past, Stories, Form

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• After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

  Andrew Jackson

  Regret, Eight, Government

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• Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say "I am free" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Ideas, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

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• 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

  Mom, Looks, Look Up

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• When young, you're shocked by the number of people who turn out to have feet of clay. Older, you're surprised by the number of people who don't.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Feet, Numbers, People

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• I have only two regrets:
  I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

  Andrew Jackson

  Regret, Two

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• Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

  Floyd Patterson

  Boxing, Black, Cassius

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• If you are not physically strong, it's difficult. But at the same time, I think you need something more than that; you need to vary your shots, as Justine has been able to do in Amelia or Charleston, where she beat her -- I can't remember where it was on clay. So you need this kind of thing. But of course if you're not fit, you'll never make it through.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Strong, Thinking, Able

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• The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mistake, Men, Reflection

  Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.472, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.

  Novak Djokovic

  Sports, Player, Games

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• Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

  William Christopher Handy

  Home, Wind, Snakes

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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• You are not your bank account, or 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

  Personality, Spirit, Cold

  Anne Lamott's Commencement Address at University of California in Berkeley, California, www.salon.com. July 6, 2003.

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• Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

  Dave Beard

  Men, Poetry, Mind

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• Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay.

  Thomas Campbell

  Brother, Men, Hail

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.80

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• As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.

  Richard Whately

  Children, Book, Reading

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second edition”, p.500

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• For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years. When I started it was clay wheels and mostly home made decks. We were just trying to copy surfing. Everything about skateboarding had to do with surfing. It was all about fun and a way to surf when the waves were shitty.

  Jay Adams

  Fun, Home, Years

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• Water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  White, Water, Hurtful

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VIII, Chapter VI, Section 10), circa 15 BC.

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• 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

  Tennis, Achievement, Titles

  FaceBook post by Chris Evert from Dec 05, 2009

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• Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Names, White

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1977.

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• What's this?" Nick said. "Bedtime?" No one answered him. I kept my eyes closed. You look positively content, Clayton," Nick continued, thumping down on the floor. "That wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Elena is cuddled up with you, is it?" It's cold in here," I murmured. Doesn't feel cold." It's cold," Clay growled. I could start a fire." I could start one too," Clay said. "With your clothes. Before you get them off.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Eye, Fire, Clothes

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.375, Vintage Canada

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