Symbol Quotes

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

The flag is the guarantor and symbol of equality.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.

The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world.

How [the Pope] he durst [dare] make the token [symbol] of Christ on the cross (which is the token of peace, mercy and charity) a banner to lead us to slay Christian men.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

America is a symbol of freedom - it's a symbol of democracy - and if that is threatened, we have to take this platform and use it to be a voice for the voiceless.

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I've got to have it.

I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.

He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared...the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless human potential, but that ancient symbol had been lost over time. Until now.

People look at the statue of liberty and they see a proud symbol. Donald Trump looks at the statue of liberty and sees a four.

Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.

I never called him Prince because I wanted him to be a person to me, not the man behind 'Purple Rain'. Plus, technically, I was married to the Symbol... When we got married, it was much easier. If someone else was there, I could say, 'Could I speak to my husband, please?'

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.