Clay Quotes

Clay Quote of the day

For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

Time is clay. Go make something.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

[In the modern game] you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist... or you're Roger Federer...

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.

We are like clay containers filled with a beautiful treasure. So often it has been the love of Jesus expressed through the life of someone I know that has made a difference in my life.

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that's me.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

What's the difference between a Dice Clay concert and a Klan rally? Nothing. Trick question.

Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people. He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back.

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.

Become placeless, for to change this place of water and clay is but to move from one prison to another.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

To get wealth and security by guile Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name.

The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.