37 Carved Quotes for You to Enjoy

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo

Angel Free Saw Carved Until Him Marble Set

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. Immanuel Kant

Man Made Nothing Out Carved Crooked Entirely Timber Which Straight

The word 'iconic' is used too frequently - an icon is a statue carved in wood. It was shocking at first, when I got that reference. It was a responsibility, and it's impossible to live up to - you're supposed to be dead, for one thing. Debbie Harry

My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk. Lindsay Fox

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. Michelangelo

Art Thought Every Carved Greatest Artist Form Hold Marble

I think our legacy will always be there. My brothers and I have carved a path for all taekwondo players, not just in the U.S. Diana Lopez

Path Will Think Our Carved Brothers Always Legacy Just Players

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read. Diane Ackerman

In my Indian bedroom, the carved, cut-out marble jalis, or screens, which were formerly used by Indian princes to keep their wives from other eyes, have a new purpose: they are not only decorations, but a means of security, for they can be locked without shutting off the air. Doris Duke

I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face. Faith Prince

I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things - pleasures that are sort of immune from all that. Jamie Hince

If you hear Thelonious Monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He's the river that's carved this entire space that we call the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He lets you know, like, what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do. Jason Moran

You Space Top OK Possibility Run Carved Entire Piano River He Opened Like Know Call Does Sound Hear Up Goes Grand Grand Canyon Canyon Lets Play Monk

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution. Jay Inslee

Constitution Tolerance Intolerance Carved House House Of Representatives Representatives Should

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. John Shimkus

People Carved Invaded Indigenous Various Empire Occupied Southwest Middle Middle Ages Turkish Asia Themselves Ages Lands Inhabitants

The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow. Kit Williams

Out Significant Chariot Follow Carved Pointing Had Because South Handle Front Form Wherever Rabbit Meant Original Extended

The Gobi is in many ways like the old American West, filled with abandoned hamlets and buildings, traces of disappeared peoples. Across its oceanic blond grass, horses and the black silhouettes of camels move languidly, as if they are the only inhabitants. Ancient Turkic nomads left enigmatic petroglyphs carved into boulders 2,000 years ago. Lawrence Osborne

People Old Black Grass Ways Ancient Abandoned Carved Only Horses Disappeared Like Traces Buildings Camels West Years Years Ago Blond Left American Move Across Inhabitants Many Filled Enigmatic

Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods, Elijah Kent, Weldon Staton - carved out successful engineering careers at Langley. Margot Lee Shetterly

Best Father Made Engineering Seven Out Some Carved David Buddies His Five Woods Successful Engineers Kent Careers Sibling Bones

My idea of a traditional holiday - the right way to do it - goes back to the days when gift-giving meant sharing homemade things: hand-knit sweaters, carved wooden toys, smoked meats and the like. Mark Frauenfelder

Back Way Right Way Carved Sharing Idea Days Like Toys Smoked Traditional Goes Wooden Holiday Sweaters Meant Homemade Right Things

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. Nancy Gibbs

Mom Family Son Dinner Daughter Carved Had Taken Cleared Norman Mode Norman Rockwell Did Dishes Hold Cooked Dad

Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am. Nneka

Music Good Me Listening King Type Definitely Sunny Carved Good Times Like Well Am Conditions Up Times Different Experiencing Grew Who Different Things Things Hardship Nigeria

The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it. I've carved a life out for myself in Oregon, and it feels like home, not because it's the States but because that's where my friends are and where my son is. Patrick deWitt

Melted down, silver is worth a little more than four dollars an ounce. But carved, inlaid, and engraved, and identified with a particular year, it becomes the direct reflection, often the literal record, of human history, our movement through time. Peter Landesman

Time History Worth Reflection Year Down Ounce Our Melted Record Carved Direct Silver More Through Particular Identified Becomes Dollars Than Often Human Movement Literal Little Human History Engraved Four

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. Primo Levi