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“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ---And we, who always think of happinessrising, would feel the emotionthat almost baffles uswhen a happy thing falls.”
Rainer Maria Rilke“Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather many wounds; but cherish your scars for they are the proud emblems of a truly phenomenal life. The fearful, cautious, cynical and self-repressed do not live at all. And that is simply no way to be in this world.”
Anthon St. Maarten“An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.”
Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren“I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.”
Maurice Sendak“We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.”
William J. Brennan, Jr.“Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature“The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.”
Dorothea Dix“Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”
Billy Graham“Our national emblem has four lions but unfortunately we have highlighted more lambs and wolfs than real lions of our country.”
Sharad Vivek Sagar“The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."”
Voltaire