Symbol Quotes

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

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

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.

I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock.

What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.