Symbolic Quotes

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content.

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.