Symbols Quotes - Page 16

• Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

  George Eliot

  Family, Children, Littles

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola”, p.14, George Eliot

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• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Queens, Years, Grace And Mercy

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

  Sam Elliott

  Sex, Want, Tag

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Soul, Gardening

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.32, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mistake, Individual, Universal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1965). “Selected essays, lectures, and poems”, Pocket Books

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• We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.456, Library of America

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• History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

  Hugh Evans

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  "Highlighting the Plight of the Poor" by Hugh Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2011.

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• Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Believe, Flames, America

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• All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

  Megan Fox

  Sex, Hollywood, Known

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

  Megan Fox

  Sex, Thinking, Empowering

  "Megan Fox is no 'publicity android'" by Chris Nashawaty, www.today.com. Junuary 11, 2009.

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• I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

  John Frusciante

  Vocabulary, Helping, I've Learned

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• Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

  Margaret Fuller

  Art, Adequate, Facts

  Margaret Fuller (1856). “At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe”, p.198

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• The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

  Richard Gere

  Mother, Love Is, Thinking

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• My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

  Paul Getty

  Status Symbol, Outstanding, Yacht

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• I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

  Newt Gingrich

  Religious, Thinking, Should Have

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• I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that you have to work within. You are, in a sense, straightjacketed by the rules of the mathematics. But within that constrained environment, it's up to you what you do with the symbols.

  Brian Greene

  Math, Thinking, Creative

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

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• The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Honesty, Kindness

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

  John Grierson

  Done, May, Way

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• I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

  Keith Haring

  People, Lines, Shapes

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

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• But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

  Ernest Holmes

  Christian, Real, Mislead

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.26, Penguin

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• I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

  Lena Horne

  Credit, Firsts, Not Alone

  "Lena Horne obituary" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.

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• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

  Victor Hugo

  Religious, Book, Race

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

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• Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser

  Pockets, Disease, Moral

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• Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25.

  David Icke

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Interview, metro.co.uk. July 16, 2002.

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