Search in quotes: marble

The lobbies of the new hotels and the Pan American Building exhale a chill as from the unopened Pharaonic tombs... And in their marble labyrinths there is an evil presence that hates warmth and sunlight.

Quote by Russell Baker about americans

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein...

Quote by Joseph Addison about education, body, soul, human imperfections

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Quote by Joseph Addison about education, soul

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left. How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

Quote by Joy Page about chance, being

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about character, name, good, good luck

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne about life

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Quote by Louise Bogan about work

The construction of a poem equals the carving in marble of a statue, or just only a statuettes. The composition of a statuary group sends you to prose.

Quote by Barbu Cioculescu about literature