Symbol Quotes

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!'

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.

A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

I am not a sex symbol.

The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.