#symbol

I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#inspirational #symbolic #beauty

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#american flag #belief #carried #carry #cloth

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

— Bobby Darin

#father #me #mr #omit #symbol

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#bomb #brains #culture #deep #deep space

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

— Paul Tillich

#alone #because #concern #express #expressed

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#characteristic #deed #either #given #indian

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

— George Eliot

#between #children #duty #eternal #little

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#art #even #gesture #grasp #greater

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott. ↗

— Sam Elliott

#goes #great #i #known #sam

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey. ↗