Quotes about Stained

Stained glass enabled the modern world. Votes: 3

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass. Votes: 3

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement Votes: 3

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral. Votes: 2

My interest in art must have started with my Catholic upbringing. Art was everywhere: churches with its paintings, sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and fine metalwork. Votes: 2

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. Votes: 2

Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The glass has defects in it, so the image is blurred from that. Votes: 2

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. Votes: 2

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews. Votes: 2

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. Votes: 2

I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos. Votes: 2

I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light. Votes: 2

I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos. Votes: 2

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade. Votes: 2

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Votes: 2

For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically. Votes: 2

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section. Votes: 2

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image. Votes: 2

Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood. Votes: 2

I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining. Votes: 2

Under the snowcapped mountains of Fiordland National Park, freshwater streams empty into the saltwater fiords, creating a unique ecosystem. This is a heavily wooded park, so the water in the streams is stained with tannin, a substance found in plants that makes clean water seem dirty, though it isn't. Votes: 2

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major. Votes: 2

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school. Votes: 2

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. Votes: 2

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. Votes: 2

I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion. Votes: 2

Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious. Votes: 2

In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil. Votes: 2

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well. Votes: 2

I was stained by failure. Votes: 0

The purest white seems stained. Votes: 0

The best manners are stained by haughtiness. Votes: 0

Love isn't over when the sheets are stained. Votes: 0

Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me. Votes: 0

One man's pet-stained carpet is another man's Twister game. Votes: 0

The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. Votes: 0

When our eyes are tear-stained, then our hearts are blood-stained Votes: 0

When reality hurts, make sure to soar above the dream-stained sky! Votes: 0

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century. Votes: 0

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true. Votes: 0

Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun Votes: 0

When out eyes are tear-stained then our heart is blood-stained as well Votes: 0

We've got stained glass windows in our house; it's those damned pigeons. Votes: 0

If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows. Votes: 0

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed. Votes: 0

It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another. Votes: 0

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. Votes: 0

Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly. Votes: 0

In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours. Votes: 0

In a church of my own we're perfect together I recognize you in the stained glass. Votes: 0

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday? Votes: 0

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. Votes: 0

Even when your heart is blue, I'll safely hold it. I really don't mind these indigo-stained hands. Votes: 0

Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion. Votes: 0

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past? Votes: 0

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded. Votes: 0

For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world. Votes: 0

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals. Votes: 0

Imagine all the people, living life in peace. Well, that's hard to do when you're on this blood stained street. Votes: 0

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. Votes: 0

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. Votes: 0

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence. Votes: 0

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch. Votes: 0

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works. Votes: 0

Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets? Votes: 0

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year. Votes: 0

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings! Votes: 0

Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. Votes: 0

Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life. Votes: 0

Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness. Votes: 0

The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off. Votes: 0

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear. Votes: 0

While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value. Votes: 0

PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution. Votes: 0

She should think about her own soul, what she was going to do with this funky tattered pond dank item. Dark and stained, a ruined thing. Votes: 0

I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness. Votes: 0

Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior. Votes: 0

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure. Votes: 0

For often at Church I've seen the stained high glass Pour out the Virgin and Saints, twist and untwist The mortal youth of Christ astride an ass. Votes: 0

Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture. Votes: 0

For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman! Votes: 0

If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent. Votes: 0

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task." Votes: 0

absencelooks like a lake bed flooded with skysounds like cotton howlingtastes like tear-stained pillowssmells like churning bile and burnt hairfeels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying Votes: 0

Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time. Votes: 0

You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility. Votes: 0

We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us... Votes: 0

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up. Votes: 0

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element. Votes: 0

A few years ago I dropped off the face of the earth. Then I came back the next day to pick it up. Unfortunately, it was stained red with love. Votes: 0

I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people. Votes: 0

When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarletDon't you hate me? he demandedI'd hate me.You just tried to drown yourself, Ash saidYou seem to hate yourself plenty already. Votes: 0

Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth. Votes: 0

The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror. Votes: 0

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti. Votes: 0

When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already. Votes: 0

I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light Votes: 0

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate." Votes: 0

Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying. Votes: 0

He was dirty, his hair unkempt, his clothes stained with blood. Heroes in stories somehow managed to rescue maidens while looking like court dandies. Next time he went adventuring he'd remember to bring a comb. Votes: 0

Storytelling has driven faith and religious practice, keeping them alive for millennia. Just as every hymn, icon, and stained-glass window in a church links to a story, brands have the potential to build holistic identities. Votes: 0