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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.

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.

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

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

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.

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.

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