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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." »Joseph Addison
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"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture." »Aldous Huxley
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"The potter forms what he pleases with soft clay, so a man accomplishes his works by his own act." »The Hitopadesa
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"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
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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." »Bertrand Russell
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"A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay." »Bhartrihari
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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