(116 quotes found)
“The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.”
Larry Dossey
“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.”
Peter Cochrane
“Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.”
George F. Will
“The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.”
Northrop Frye
“A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through, ... The grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.”
Cameron Diaz
“Pac-Man didn't occupy its place in commercial culture because consumers wanted to metaphorically imitate an insatiably hungry little yellow ball; they bought because the game was good enough to tap into genuine sources of pleasure”
Chris Green
“God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity”
Christina of Sweden
