Top 100 Symbols Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Symbols Quotes from famous people such as Gunter Blobel, Chirlane McCray, Origen, Hugh Evans, Shenaz Treasury, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Driving through Dresden, I still remember the many pala

Driving through Dresden, I still remember the many palaces, happily decorated with cherubs and other symbols of the baroque era. The city made an indelible impression on me.
Gunter Blobel
Symbols are important. It depends on how they’re used.
Chirlane McCray
If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
Origen
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols – boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale – from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband – is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
Hugh Evans
I hate when they portray women as just sex symbols in short skirts, running around playing dumb. I refuse to watch such films or be in such films.
Shenaz Treasury
America’s veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today’s Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress’ action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
Bill Shuster
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures – European, American and Chinese – but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.
Devdutt Pattanaik
Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don’t know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.
John Hench
I’m just not into that entire ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ stuff. They’re going in and doing movies, and it’s like, ‘When did these women become sex symbols?’ It’s a part of Hollywood I don’t understand.
Shanna Moakler
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.
Julian Baggini
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
George Henry Lewes
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Cottage cheese is one of our culture’s most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
Caroline Knapp
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
Morris Graves
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
John Grierson
Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, ‘Why doesn’t she retire?’
Tracy Chapman
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
William Cullen Bryant
I’ve always felt strongly that the Confederate flag and other symbols like that are not representative of Nascar, even though I respect anyone’s right, because it does mean different things to different people.
Brian France
The market will evolve into two segments: cars that provide ease of access to transport and are shared by many people, and cars that are exclusive, high-end symbols of the owner’s status and aspirations.
Anand Mahindra
The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do – communicating through symbols.
James Woods
The list of unlikely sex symbols is pretty long if you look online.
Adrian Dunbar
I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.
Steve Israel
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
Charles Jencks
Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
Oscar Hijuelos
My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia… a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
Malcolm Turnbull
Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that.
Alec Baldwin
To me, there’s two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.
Mike Schultz
‘Pyrapshere’ began as a sketch for a variety show I produced called ‘A Pretty Good Show.’ My partner, Andersen Gabrych, and I expanded it into a full-fledged faux-religion, including a list of 21 tenets, sacred symbols, testimonials, and even a clothing line. Many people believed it was a real thing and wanted to join.
Maggie Rowe
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
Slobodan Milosevic
When I played for Stuttgart, I met Manchester United and Chelsea. With United, I immediately think of the duels with Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes and with Chelsea, it was John Terry. Those players are symbols of their clubs and the success they had at that time.
Philipp Lahm
Men can be sex symbols and also earn respect for their

Men can be sex symbols and also earn respect for their professional accomplishments, and the same standard should apply to women.
Ana Kasparian
If I scroll down my Instagram replies, the tenth one down features a racist emoji – which is not unusual. So I follow the protocol, which is to block the user and report the message under the category of ‘hate speech and symbols.’ Then I am told that an emoji with a monkey and a banana is not considered racist.
Troy Deeney
Because for me, equations and symbols aren’t just a thing. They’re a voice that speaks out about the incredible richness of nature and the startling simplicity in the patterns that twist and turn and warp and evolve all around us, from how the world works to how we behave.
Hannah Fry
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret – these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.
Tariq Ramadan
I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.
Yingluck Shinawatra
I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions.
Bernie Siegel
I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could be used as a tool to analyze and understand the modern world.
Terence Tao
I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.
Darin Strauss
When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbols: tears, blood, crucifixion, the stations of the cross, transubstantiation… Faith is a belief in something that is irrational, and so to have faith, there is some correlation there with the belief in the art.
Robert Gober
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison
I don’t like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.
Michael Dirda
I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. You’re merchandised, you’re a product.
Koena Mitra
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.
Andres Serrano
Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and meaning. By adding symbols, visual metaphors, likenesses of people, and room layouts, we add several dimensions.
Tom Wujec
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar Wilde
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
Joyce Carol Oates
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing ‘mere’ about symbols.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?
Devdutt Pattanaik