#symbol

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#because #being #christians #commandments #foundation

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#dreams #hero #hopes #reality #symbol

Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#coincide #cycles #goddess #great #lives

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them. ↗

— Robert. L. Ehrlich

#appropriate #celebrate #choose #citizen #decent

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left. ↗

— Michael Medved

#hero #hollywood #industry #left #michael

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

— Marilyn Monroe

#bewildered #carry #especially #heavy #heavy load

I am not a sex symbol. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#i #i am #sex #sex symbol #symbol

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#failure #guns #human #rockets #symbols

This monument is going to be built as a symbol. ↗

— Bill Russell

#going #monument #symbol

But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#end #going #grow #had #i