Arches Quotes

An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither an obelisk nor a rectangular box nor a dome seemed right on this site or for this purpose. But here, at the edge of the Mississippi River, a great arch did seem right.

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

Without stones there is no arch.

What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she orgasms... So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation.

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

The greatest sin is appearing naive or old-fashioned so that somebody can give you a sort of a very cool arch smile and devastate you with one extraordinarily crafted line that puts kind of a hole in your pretentious balloon.

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap.

If one believes, then miracles occur.

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.