Personal Symbol Quotes

I finally had a ship tattooed to my chest. I wanted something on it.

Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.

The tattoo that means the most to me would probably be my Chinese symbol on my neck. It means love - I got it on Mother's Day.

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

When I speak at events, I often wear my dad's ties and my mom's earrings. It's a small, almost secret way of having them with me when I'm up there onstage, talking to a roomful of strangers. It makes me feel safe.

I carry around this little lion named Leo, which I've had for as long as I can remember.

The Olympic Rings tattoo has played its part and will continue to motivate me.

Britney Spears became my talisman. I became obsessed with wearing Britney T-shirts. I felt it would bring me luck. And it did.

I have a necklace around my neck that my lady gave me, so I try never to leave home without that.

I do a little sign on the court every time i make a shot or a good pass and i pound my chest and point to the sky - it symbolizes that i have a heart for God. It’s something that my mom and I came up with in college and I do it every time I step on the floor as a reminder of who i’m playing for.

You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it.

I wish, when the coat wears out that Eugene Debs wore at his trial [for espionage in 1918], I could have a little piece of it to keep in my Bible.

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?

I got Elliott Smith's photography book as a gift before. The publisher of that book's logo were glasses, and those glasses came to my mind when I was thinking of having a tattoo.

Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be ok - that we were all going to be ok - the message would come to me in the form of a white feather. Then something happened to me about ten years ago when I was on tour in Australia. I was presented with a white feather by an Aboriginal tribal elder, which definitely took my breath away. One thing for sure is that the white feather has always represented peace to me.

When I reached the summit of Everest, I scooped some ice into my drinking bottle as I'd run out of water and hoped it would melt. After I got back to base camp, I decided to keep it, so I had a special bottle made with an inscription - it's my lucky water.

For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO

I represent love. That's what I represent.

I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'

The crown is always with me, so I keep it close.

My mother's cross was given to me when she died. I like to have it always close to me.

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

I have been given the tag of Sher Khan. So, the tiger is my spirit animal.