Iron Quotes

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

You gotta strike while the iron's hot.

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Now comes the reign of iron.

I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

Iron hand in a velvet glove.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80's, even though I experimented with different lengths, I generally wore it curly. Since then, I've learned how to use a blow dryer and flat iron.