Symbol Quotes

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.

Living a life where you don’t need a vacation from is a symbol of true freedom.

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.

People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation’s flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

As many know, the Chinese expression for “crisis” consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for “danger,” the second the symbol for “opportunity.”