Symbol Quotes

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. (George Carlin)
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. View quote
Ayn Rand
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. View quote
Simone Weil
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise. View quote
Kathleen Turner
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace. (Christie Brinkley)
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other. View quote
George C. Marshall
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We, the Poles, do not understand war as a symbol but as a real fight. View quote
Władysław Sikorski
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. View quote
Emil Cioran
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. View quote
Marcus Garvey
I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act. View quote
Diora Baird
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. View quote
Richard Dawkins
That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living. View quote
Martha Graham
The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. View quote
Pericles
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. View quote
Walt Disney
[A]t its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior. View quote
John D. Carmack