Clay Quotes

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

You must not be discouraged or let yourself become dejected if your actions have not succeeded as perfectly as you intended. What do you expect? We are made of clay and not every soil yields the fruits expected by the one who tills it. But let us always humble ourselves and acknowledge that we are nothing if we lack the Divine assistance.

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...

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.

The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak

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

Conviction brings a silent,
indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay;
the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow,
even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.

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

Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.

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.

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

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

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

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.

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

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

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

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

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

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

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

Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.

I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake,
and pretend to be always undecided;
on the contrary,
my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty,
and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.

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

I dream in fire but work in clay.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

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

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.

It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant of something other than itself. This object must be a sign as well as an object; a meaning must animate it, and make it say more than it is.

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

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.

How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

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.

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.

[The internet] ought to be like clay, rather than a sculpture that you observe from a distance.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

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!

I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

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.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.