Symbols Quotes
Symbols Quote of the day
Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.
Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.
Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.
When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.
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.
A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.
Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.
The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.
Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.