| "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." »Joseph Addison |
| "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." »Michelangelo |
| "My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "(Speaking about Satchel Paige's pitching)It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate, it looks like a marble." »Hack Wilson |
| "Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture." »Aldous Huxley |
| "Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues." »Phillips Brooks |
| "We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears" »John Ruskin |
| "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." »Caesar Augustus |
| "Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." »Arabic Parable |
| "If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity." »Daniel Webster |
| "It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham |
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