#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

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#exists #important #life #none #often

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#being #building #city #felt #gateway

I don't consider myself a sex symbol. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#i #myself #sex #sex symbol #symbol

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#runway #society #something #symbolizes #very

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

— Thomas Harrison

#given #leans #lyric #metaphorical #recent

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. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#bar #because #club #eve #feel