(93 quotes found)
“Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.”
Martine Vermeulen
“The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.”
William Shakespeare
“Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.”
Lao Tzu
“And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.”
Bible
“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.”
Jean Anouilh
“The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.”
Marshall McLuhan
“There is only one breath; all are made of the same clay; the light within all is the same.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“I haven't seen any junior in the Midwest better than Clay. There's not one school in the country that wouldn't offer Clay a scholarship based on talent alone.”
Chris Pool
“They don't have the speed in the backfield of a Danville or Henry Clay, but they have good speed.”
Chris Pardue
“How did clay and carbonates form in frozen comets? We don't know, but their presence may imply that the primordial solar system was thoroughly mixed together, allowing material formed near the Sun where water is liquid, and frozen material from out by Uranus and Neptune, to be included in the same body.”
Carey Lisse
