symbol quotes

Possibly the symbol for America is the Frontier† The corresponding symbol for England is the Island† The central symbol for Canada†is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance.

- Margaret Eleanor Atwood
  Survival: a Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, ch.1, 'Survival'.

The fancy of the mass of men is incredibly weak; it can see nothing without a visible symbol, and there is much that it can scarcely make out with a symbol.

-Walter Bagehot
  The English Constitution, ch.4,'The House of Lords'.

   Science is the reduction of the bewildering diversity of unique events to manageable uniformity within one of a number of symbol systems, and technology is the art of using thesesymbol systemssoastocontrol and organize unique events. Scientific observation is always a viewing of things through the refracting medium of a symbol system, and technological praxis is always handling of things in ways that some symbol system has dictated. Education in science and technology is essentially education on the symbol level.

- Aldous Leonard Huxley
  In Daedalus, spring issue.

A conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones† A resuscitated corpse might be a resuscitated corpse and might be the sign of something, butthere isstill the questionof what it is the symbol of.

- David Edward Jenkins
  Of the Christian doctrine of Christ's physical resurrection. 'Poles  Apart', BBC radio broadcast, 4 Oct.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  Ulysses.

The exchange rate is onlya statistic, not a symbol of national honor and virility.

- Paul R Krugman
  Quoted in the NewYork Times, 26  Jun.

Nothing has conduced more to shake that decent respect for the living symbol of thestatethat goes by the name of royalty than the ever-recurring rattle of the money box.

- Henry Du Pre Labouche'  re
  In the Fortnightly Review, Feb.

In China the bat is a symbol of happiness Not for me!

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  'Bat'.

The silver-haired, pipe-smoking northerner was a consummate British politician: tenacious, shrewd, manipulative, a blend of homespun tastes, acid wit and pragmatic, often shifting policies†the symbol of an emerging middle-class Briton. McGonagall

- Robert D(ennis) McFadden
  Of Harold Wilson. In the NewYork Times, 25 May.

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heavenof silkworm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

- Marianne Craig Moore
  O  To Be A Dragon,'O  To Be  A Dragon'.