Iron Quotes - page 4

When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the towered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain... (Robinson Jeffers)
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. View quote
Robert South
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Last came, and last did go, The Pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain, (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). View quote
John Milton
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
When the iron is hot, strike. View quote
John Heywood
Thank Artemis, it is you! That little scar on your lip--you tried to eat a stapler when you were two!" ... Hedge nodded like he approved of Jason's taste. "Staplers--excellent source of iron. View quote
Rick Riordan
Staplers--- Excellent source of iron. View quote
Rick Riordan
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. View quote
Phyllis Diller
I drank lots of water and orange juice and took a multivitamin and iron supplement for breakfast, which was my regimen since Bill had come into my life and brought (along with love, adventure, and excitement) the constant threat of anemia. (Charlaine Harris)
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Its not always you get to hit the iron when it is hot. I believe in hitting it so hard, that it gets hot. View quote
Lakshmi Mittal
I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
Let tyrants shake their iron rod. View quote
William Billings
In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. View quote
Wendell Willkie
In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam. View quote
James Nasmyth
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron. View quote
Isaac D'Israeli
The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles. View quote
Flann O'Brien
Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff. View quote
Adrian Lyne
Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore. (Brian Boitano)
I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial. View quote
Camila Alves
When I was a freshman in high school, I got a letterman jacket, which you'd think would be great stock. The jacket had the big S on it, for Santa Monica. But rather than having a football or a baseball on the S, I had a little nine iron. Girls thought it was a flute. View quote
Carson Daly
The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time. View quote
Cat Cora
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. View quote
Ernst Moritz Arndt