Quotes about Clay

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay. Votes: 5

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process. Votes: 4

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. Votes: 4

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Votes: 4

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. Votes: 4

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. Votes: 4

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong. Votes: 4

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting. Votes: 4

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives. Votes: 4

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. Votes: 4

Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind. Votes: 4

Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. Votes: 4

Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil. Votes: 3

It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass. Votes: 3

Clay is one of the best things you can put in your body. Votes: 3

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing. Votes: 3

Uh-uh" Clay drawled above me, "Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn Votes: 3

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day. Votes: 3

What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question. Votes: 3

We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure. Votes: 3

I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun. Votes: 3

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful. Votes: 3

The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act," writes Clay Shirky in his book Cognitive Surplus." Votes: 3

My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment. Votes: 3

To get wealth and security by guileIs like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay. Votes: 3

I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch. Votes: 3

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder. Votes: 3

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay? Votes: 3

Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people... He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan. Votes: 3

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun. Votes: 3

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people. Votes: 3

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay. Votes: 3

If you've gotten yourself into a situation when Clay Aiken is going to talk about his feelings with you, it's time to kill yourself. Votes: 3

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp. Votes: 3

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be. Votes: 3

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.' Votes: 3

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep. Votes: 3

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly. Votes: 3

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image. Votes: 3

Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern." - Clay to Elena Votes: 3

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed. Votes: 3

I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way. Votes: 3

I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was. Votes: 3

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali. Votes: 3

O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter. Votes: 3

When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either. Votes: 3

For over 25 years, Lacy Clay has been a powerful voice for working families and a tireless advocate for the people of St. Louis. And throughout his long career in public service, I've considered Lacy a close personal friend. Votes: 3

Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.' Votes: 3

Clay Aiken ran for Congress in North Carolina. But he didn't make it. Clay Aiken is famous for coming in second in a TV popularity contest that most people got fed up with years ago. He also lost on 'American Idol.' Votes: 3

While other men were peacefully following their vocations and extending their interests they [the Saints in Clay County] have been deprived of the right of citizenship, prevented from enjoying their own, charged with violating the sacred principles of our Constitution and laws. Votes: 3

What they call 'alt-comedy' now is basically what comedy was like in the '80s. People tried different things, and everybody went to the clubs; there was no other place. Then somehow, the clubs became infiltrated by Dice Clay and Carrot Top types. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing. Votes: 3

By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution of our country; and that human nature can be driven to a certain extent when it will yield no further. Votes: 3

I don't know how to animate on the computer, and I'm really grateful that I worked with a couple of other guys. We called it our triumvirate, John Kahrs and Clay Kaytis, who really understood computer animation but loved and embraced hand drawn, which is Disney's heritage. Votes: 3

To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and that 25 percent includes a large dollop of imperialism, racism, sexism and homophobia, leaving little time for Lincoln, Edison, Clay, Holmes, Alcott, Dickinson, Adams, Longfellow or Fulton). Votes: 3

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement. Votes: 3

You don't need to watch out for me, Clay." But I did, Hannah. And I wanted to. I could have helped you. But when I tried, you pushed me away. I can almost hear Hannah's voice speaking my nest thought for me. "Then why didn't you try harder? Votes: 3

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced. Votes: 3

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? Votes: 3

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds. Votes: 1

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it. Votes: 1

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay. Votes: 1

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong. Votes: 1

I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing. Votes: 1

In my real life I live in the countryside, I walk a lot, I shoot clay pigeons, I don't get involved in the film business or anything, and then in my cinematic life, I think I am drawn to the dark side. Votes: 1

There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is the kind that adds, building with clay, piling it on. The way I write novels is to keep piling on and piling on and piling on. Votes: 1

From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems. Votes: 1

Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that. Votes: 1

CG can do anything, but it can't do everything well. What it naturally can do is special effects. But using stop-motion comes from our desire to do handmade stuff. There are always going to be kids who get out whatever it might be - clay, bits of wire, Barbie dolls, Legos. They want to tell little stories. Votes: 1

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing. Votes: 1

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. Votes: 1

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. Votes: 1

Time is clay; make something. Votes: 0

Time is clay. Go make something. Votes: 0

People cannot be molded like clay. Votes: 0

And clay-caked clothes are so last year. Votes: 0

I dream in fire but work in clay. Votes: 0

Was it for this the clay grew tall? Votes: 0

The same sun that melts butter hardens clay. Votes: 0

What is man but a mass of thawing clay? Votes: 0

I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets. Votes: 0

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. Votes: 0

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay. Votes: 0

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay. Votes: 0

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax. Votes: 0

The same sun that melts the butter hardens the clay. Votes: 0

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay. Votes: 0

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand. Votes: 0

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay Votes: 0

If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay. Votes: 0

Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful. Votes: 0

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts. Votes: 0

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. Votes: 0

Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay. Votes: 0

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. Votes: 0

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike. Votes: 0

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay. Votes: 0

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle. Votes: 0

Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got. Votes: 0

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other. Votes: 0

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both. Votes: 0

My mind is like clay, but thank goodness God knows how to mold it! Votes: 0

As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust. Votes: 0

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in. Votes: 0

A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that's me. Votes: 0

Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips. Votes: 0

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too? Votes: 0

Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty. Votes: 0

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance. Votes: 0

True Love in this differs from gold and clay,/That to divide is not to take away. Votes: 0

What a majesty for the Master of this clay, Who created for it colourful night and day. Votes: 0

Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay. Votes: 0

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay. Votes: 0

What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay. Votes: 0

If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name. Votes: 0

I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay. Votes: 0

When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand. Votes: 0

If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach. Votes: 0

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay. Votes: 0

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands. Votes: 0

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes. Votes: 0

You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender. Votes: 0

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus. Votes: 0

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game. Votes: 0

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay. Votes: 0

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another. Votes: 0

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? Votes: 0

Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay. Votes: 0

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? Votes: 0

There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret. Votes: 0

In the modern game, you're a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist ... or you're Roger Federer. Votes: 0

Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots. Votes: 0

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. Votes: 0

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. Votes: 0

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous. Votes: 0

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay. Votes: 0

Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time. Votes: 0

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting. Votes: 0

Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky. Votes: 0

I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. Votes: 0

Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents. Votes: 0

Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay. Votes: 0

Answer me this: Is love rational? Is it sane? Can it be tamed and sculpted, like a piece of clay? Of course it can't. Votes: 0

A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. Votes: 0

Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet? Votes: 0

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began... Votes: 0

But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization. Votes: 0

Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season. Votes: 0

The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself. Votes: 0

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece. Votes: 0

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other. Votes: 0

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children. Votes: 0

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day for braver feet to tread on. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! Votes: 0

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

True love in this differs from gold and clay, that to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright, gazing on many truths. Votes: 0

Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away. Votes: 0

And in a mad tranceStrike with our spirit's knifeInvulnerable nothingsWe decayLike corpses in a charnelFear & GriefConvulse is & consume usDay by dayAnd cold hopes swarmLike worms withinOur living clay Votes: 0

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay. Votes: 0

I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives. Votes: 0

These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze. Votes: 0

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Votes: 0

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. Votes: 0

I'd love to create my own stuff. I've always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little deeper in the clay, so to speak. Votes: 0

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay. Votes: 0

I think I am a complete player. I can play well on all the surfaces. For me, the clay might be easiest, but I am not a specialist on clay. Votes: 0

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust? Votes: 0

This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence? Votes: 0

How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn! Votes: 0

I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering. Votes: 0

Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel. [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri Fingendus sine fine rota.] Votes: 0

Our love was bornoutside the walls,in the wind,in the night,in the earth,and that's why the clay and the flower,the mud and the rootsknow your name. Votes: 0

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever. Votes: 0

Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive. Votes: 0

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction. Votes: 0

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! Votes: 0

Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without. Votes: 0

We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say. Votes: 0

If you are striving to be equal to your destiny and worthy of the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart, then you should be regularly reaching new horizons. Votes: 0

Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand. Votes: 0

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. Votes: 0

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps. Votes: 0

Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor. Votes: 0

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world! Votes: 0

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton. Votes: 0

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether. Votes: 0

The beauty of where I'm from - this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina - I didn't have a TV; I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly. Votes: 0

A brick could used to translate and transform long cuneiform texts into shorter tweets. Sure, just take the brick and smash the clay tablets, and each broken fragment should be roughly 140 characters. Votes: 0

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to! Votes: 0

The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other's attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay Votes: 0

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide. Votes: 0

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions. Votes: 0

Sex is of the same clay as Time! -- of the same clay Since both are in their essence but One-Way Time is the one-way dimension: sex its tart And subtle biological counterpart. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction. Votes: 0

Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away! Votes: 0

This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine. Votes: 0

What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece. Votes: 0

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe. Votes: 0

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress. Votes: 0

The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows. Votes: 0

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream. Votes: 0

We are like clay containers filled with a beautiful treasure. So often it has been the love of Jesus expressed through the life of someone I know that has made a difference in my life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece. Votes: -1