86 Quotes About Symbol

I am not a bird or a symbol. I am a woman burning.

It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical.

The green earth is a symbol of hope. Walk on it like you are going somewhere, even when you are going nowhere.

Humanity, why do you keep giving certain people awards that many others deserve? ...We don't need symbols anymore. We need equality.

Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater, and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid?

Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.

Like the subconscious, like love, like memory, like time itself, like every single one of us, the church is built on the ruins of subsequent restorations, there is no rock bottom, there is no first anything, no last anything, just layers and secret passageways and interlocking chambers, like the Christian Catacombs, and right along these, even a Jewish Catacomb.

That flag is a symbol we attach our emotions to, but it isn't the emotion itself and it isn't the thing we really care about. Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.

The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.