Symbol Quotes

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
Marilyn Monroe

Hate, Sex, Becomes

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus Garvey

Black, Rather, Greatness

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.
Marilyn Monroe

Hurt, Sex, Tired

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spiritual, Fact, Natural

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individual, Mistake, Universal

How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.
Marilyn Monroe

Girl, Sex, Needs

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck

Time, Home, Wedding

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
George Carlin

Two, Group, Guy

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Light is the symbol of truth.
James Russell Lowell

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney

End, Means, Mouse

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo

Great, Human, Book

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, True, Liberty

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot

Love, Marriage, Children

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce

Power, Fool, Country

I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.
Shirley Manson

Women, Beautiful, Sex

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas Carlyle

Government, Wisdom, Exact

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Douglas MacArthur

Life, Time, Done

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
George Santayana

Change, Experience, Daily

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
Kathleen Turner

Women, Men, Attitude

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
Lena Horne

Alone, Free, Anybody

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.
David Bowie

Mother, Sex, Image

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
William J. Clinton

Home, Freedom, Strong

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
Steven Seagal

Great, Sex, Rather

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Self, Soul, Emotion

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.
Jennifer Aniston

Sex, Someone, Done

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene

Truth, Kindness, Human

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
Erykah Badu

Religion, Self, Words

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
David Ogilvy

Thought, Image, Complex

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael

Love, Time, Fear

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
Carol P. Christ

Power, Meaning, Female

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