Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.
Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.
Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.
Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat. , Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae. ]
The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.
Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.
At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus himself.
The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.
The dove is my emblem.
I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.
In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood
The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away; The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea; Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
