Clay Quotes

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.

As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust.

To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

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.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

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!

This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

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.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.

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.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

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.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil.

Did you use a chainsaw?" Joey said. "I seem to recall you like chainsawa." "There wasn't a power outlet." Clay turned to me. "That's what I want for Father's Day, darling. A gas powered chainsaw.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

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.

We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.

There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.

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!

You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

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.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.

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

For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.

The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel and shapes it into something new.

What is man but a mass of thawing clay?

Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.

I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. "Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!"

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

Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These guys really come in having done their work.

When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

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

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.

My sister and I may have been crafted of the same genetic clay, baked in the same uterine kiln, but we were disparate species, doomed never to love each other except blindly.