Clay Quotes

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“Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.”

“Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou?”

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“A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.”

“A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will not submit to be “clay.””

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“Clay is embedded in our subconscious. It has been there for at least 50,000 years.”

“Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!”

“If we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything.”

“Do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”

“Imperial Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.”

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

“How shall we celebrate the day,
When God appeared in mortal clay,
The mark of worldly scorn.”

“These look like the workmanship of heaven;
This is the porcelain clay of human kind,
And therefore cast into these noble moulds.”

“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.”

“This Great God,
Like a mammy bending over her baby,
Kneeled down in the dust
Toiling over a lump of clay
Till He shaped it in His own image.”

“The heart -- which may be broken: happy they!
Thrice fortunate! who of that fragile mould,
The precious porcelain of human clay,
Break with the first fall.”

“If they find some stain or blemish in a name of note, not grieving that their greatest are so small, inflate themselves with some insane delight, and judge all nature from her feet of clay.”