63 Clay Quotes for You to Enjoy

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Plutarch

Man Would Would-Be Clay Left Then Fortune Bricks Ever Chance

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands. Lupita Nyong'o

Art Clay Dirt Wrong Hands Right

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. Martin Luther

God Great Me Generation Matter Out Marvel Clay Mystery Had Him Advised Continue Reproduction Them Mankind Should Species

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood. W. E. B. Du Bois

Battle Men Long Chasing Poverty Edge White Reconstruction Eating Clay Vast Had Bewildered Sheer Been Up Labor Labor Movement Hanging Subsistence Movement Manhood Land Muddled Ignorant Who Fought Now Slaves

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. Anne Lamott

Death You Gardening Ugly Soil Black Dig Earth See Seeds Seems Clay Throw Never Nails Over Over It Know Cover Rocks Rocky Handful Hands Doomed Polluted Holes Again Little Roots Your Full Poppy

My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. John Henrik Clarke

Me History Learning First Become Own Worried Kind Spirit About Blacks Clay Feel Town Southern Subscribed Being Different Wanted Land Different Kind Farmer Teaching Daddy Alabama Bones

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. Karl Rove

Constitution Word Judiciary Whatever Liberal Latest Backlash Would Clay Generate Empathy Voter Policy Pass Courts Malleable Branch Expansive Did Legislative Legislative Branch Represents Want Form Which Justices Create Molded View Activism Code Treating

There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform. Rachel Cusk

Work You Justice Yourself Book Fear Will Seen Creation Every Others Worries Hoped About Pot Clay Shame Remake Through Always How Very Artist Transform Whether Create Aspire Expose Expressive Thing

Clay is not my surface; everyone knows that. Angelique Kerber

Everyone Clay Knows Surface

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay. Anne Beatts

Great You People Met Think Meet Some Only Clay Feet Heads Discover Famous Famous People Them Might Then Who

In my students, I'm always dispelling the notion that characters come like a light bulb over the head in cartoons. For me, it's like a shapeless big lump of clay. You just build it into something, and then you step back and go, 'That's not right,' hack it apart, put out a new arm, and say, 'Maybe this will walk around and work.' Anthony Doerr

Work Me You Light Walk Will Big Build Back Say Out Characters Cartoons Something Clay Hack Students Step Put Head Light Bulb Arm Over New Come Like Around Always Bulb Go Maybe Just Apart Then Notion Lump Right

When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either. Artie Lange

Saying Time Political Cause First Ruined Right Time Correctness Andrew Clay No-One He Eddie Around Coming Political Correctness Dice Sam Died Going Just Anymore Either Tolerate Right Murphy Started Career

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first. Bill Clegg

Life Work You Writing First Memoir Clay Make Your Novel

I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing. Bonnie Wright

Work You Drawing Visual Something Clay Shapes Feel Like Because Makes Doing Quite Different Hold Page Mold Different Shapes Thing

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him. Bret Easton Ellis

You Crime Thinking Criminal About Horrific Something Clay Could Taking Participants Him Because His Passivity Lot Than Front Stops Where Happen Place Them Much Act Less Many Moments Zero Things Things Happen

Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.' Cathleen Schine

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing. Chloe Sevigny

Money Job First Own Club Pay Embarrassing Member Cost My Own Clay Tennis Had Like First Job Know Concept House Yacht Always Rent How Quart Courts How Much Grade Any Sixth Which Much Really Sweeping Works Milk Near Things

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it. Daniel Boulud

Love Freedom Me Emotions Whatever Imagination Gives Clay Blank Blank Canvas Freedom Of Expression Block Ultimate Canvas Create Your Capture Expression

Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great. Deborah Tannen

Great Back Considered Compromise Clay Powerful Senator Achieving Really Henry

Ahead of going on the red carpet, in the morning, I'll put on a clay mask to prepare. Doutzen Kroes

Morning Mask Carpet Clay Put Red Red Carpet Going Prepare

When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel. Elizabeth McCracken

Husband First Met Out City Clay He Sort His Anyhow Capital Sculpting European Map Novel Based Illustrate Second Imaginary

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds. Eva Zeisel

You Birds Clay Making Hands Your Hard Avoid

When you're a kid and practice on clay, you're always, 'Oh, I wish I could win Roland Garros.' Garbine Muguruza

You Win Wish Practice Kid Clay Could Always Oh

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