It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.
Henry Reed

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
Jim Henson

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
John Forsythe

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
Benazir Bhutto

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Gustav Stresemann

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.
Diane Feinstein

Light is the symbol of truth.
James Russell Lowell

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
Carl Andre

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
Michael Medved

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
Isaac Mizrahi

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
Bobby Darin

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.
Jim Costa

My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.
Mark Messier

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.
Chris Christie

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
Christopher Lasch