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Here eglantine embalm'd the air, Hawthorne and hazel mingled there; The primrose pale, and violet flower, Found in each cliff a narrow bower; Fox-glove and nightshade, side by side, Emblems of punishment and pride, Group'd their dark hues with every stain The weather-beaten crags retain. -- Walter Scott
The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy -- Thomas Bulfinch
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence. -- Abraham Lincoln
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery. -- John Donne
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. -- Amy Lowell
I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem. -- Ilka Chase
Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of. -- William Butler Yeats
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. -- Billy Graham
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves. -- William Cowper
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents. -- William J. Brennan
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb. -- Shane Claiborne
Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright. -- David Macbeth Moir
Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion. -- Simon Hoggart
The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem. -- Henry Adams
A bad earthquake at once destroys the oldest associations: the world, the very emblem of all that is solid, has moved beneath our feet like a crust over a fluid; one second of time has conveyed to the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would never have created. -- Charles Darwin
I selected an enormous Marine Corps emblem to be tattooed across my chest. It required several sittings and hurt me like the devil, but the finished product was worth the pain. I blazed triumphantly forth, a Marine from throat to waist. The emblem is still with me. Nothing on earth but skinning will remove it. -- Smedley Butler
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. -- Boris Pasternak
Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power, but of His mercy. They were throughout moral in their character, and spiritual in the ends contemplated by them. They were in fact embodiments of His whole character; exemplars of His whole teaching, emblems of His whole mission. -- James McCosh
Canada has two emblems - the beaver and the maple. -- John W. Dawson
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood -- Milan Kundera
Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems. -- Emily Dickinson
Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her. -- Milan Kundera
Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts~? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock. -- Dorothea Dix
I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed shape-by-shape, layer-by-layer, like any other picture. -- Kerry James Marshall
Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood. -- Richard Whately
A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies. -- Jonathan Swift

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