|
"The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere." »Jim Hightower
|
|
"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 others lives." »Hugh Elliott
|
|
"The potter forms what he pleases with soft clay, so a man accomplishes his works by his own act." »The Hitopadesa
|
|
"Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body." »Mildred & Victor Goertzel
|
|
"A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay." »Bhartrihari
|
|
"Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we to keep it in one piece, as a pot! All jobs are ours! Life only gives things and it has no other responsibility!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
|
|
"I do remember stopping by the way, To watch a potter thumping his wet clay; And with its all-obliterated tongue It murmured, ?Gently, brother, gently, pray!?" »Omar Khayyam
|
|
"To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
|
|
"The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago." »Dorothea Brande
|
|
"Single is every living creature born, Single he passes to another world, Single he eats the fruit of evil deeds, Single, the fruit of good; and when he leaves His body, like a log or heap of clay, Upon the ground, his kinsmen walk away: Virtue alone stays by him at the tomb, And bears him through the dreary, trackless gloom." »Manu
|
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
[