Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think Mardi Gras is a symbol that we're down but not out.

Paul Tagliabue

He was mythic. He symbolizes football, and, more importantly, he symbolizes leadership.

Helen is a symbol of the tenacity of our people.

Diane von Furstenberg

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

Edward Sapir

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

Arthur C. Clarke

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Alfred Korzybski

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

Allen Ginsberg

Things are symbols of themselves.

A. E. Waite

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Joe Glenn

Steamboat, the bucking horse, is the symbol for our state,

Maajid Nawaz

The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

Winston Scott

This symbolizes a whole new way of doing business.

Paul Emsley

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

Bill Schneider

Now I think New York is symbolic of the nation's division.

It would be a symbolic contribution, not compensation.

Hal Borland

In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.

Christopher Lasch

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Gene Tierney

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

George Edward Woodberry

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

Jesse Jackson

If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.

We wanted it to be local. We wanted it to be symbolic of our own difficulties in life.

The Weeknd

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Stephanie Bennett

It was a symbolic need for us to be out front, because it was our kid,

David Mamet

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

These 10,000 are an extraordinary symbol of our country's will to be there, to participate in these Olympics.

John Schlesinger

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

Edward Albee

I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things are symbols.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Shirin Neshat

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!