Quotes about Symbolism
In my journals I have a lot of conversations that I'm having with you in my head. I'll be having a conversation with you and I'll put it in my journal because stereotypically or symbolically these conversations occur in a space of Black woman/white woman where it's beyond Adrienne and Audre, almost as if we're two voices.
- Audre Lorde
We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And . I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And , but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time [Childhood].
- Stephen Hawking
Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.
- Tim LaHaye
No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.
- Graham Greene
The fact that the prohibited tree was placed in the center of the garden, right next to the Tree of Life (Gen. 2:9), symbolizes that the life that God intends for us revolves around our honoring God's prohibition as much as trusting God for his provision.
- Gregory Boyd
If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.
- LM Montgomery
He spat into the ocean and said, "Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you've killed a man.
- Ernest Hemingway
I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water.
- James Faust
Tree at my window, window tree,My sash is lowered when night comes on;But let there never be curtain drawnBetween you and me.
- Robert Frost
The example of this poor, dark-skinned man who turned the empire upside-down made a deep impression on the young Sadat. "I began to imitate him," he writes. "I took off all my clothes, covered myself from the waist down with an apron, made myself a spindle, and withdrew to a solitary nook on the roof of our house in Cairo.
- Lawrence Wright
Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
- Deepak Chopra