(78 quotes found)
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Michelangelo
“Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity”
Father James Keller
“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment”
Dorothy Parker
“Rotten wood cannot be carved”
Chinese Proverbs
“Lay the green sod on mecarve my name in stonelay the green sod on methe soldier has come home.”
Barry Sadler
“Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live”
Elizabeth Akers Allen
“Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual”
Soren Kierkegaard
“For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time”
George Sutherland
“Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.”
Louise Bogan
