Famous quotes containing the words graven image, graven and/or image:
“Thou shalt have one God only; who
Would be at the expense of two?
No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency:”
—Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
“I myself have seen the floating ships
And nothing will ever be the same
The shouts,
The harrowing voices within the house.
I stand apart with an army:
My mind is graven with ships.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 15 (1962)