Symbolic Quotes

You've got bases loaded, nobody out and don't get anybody home, and you've got first and third earlier [in the fifth] and a double play erased that. It was very symbolic of our season. It seems like we get in that situation and we don't get anything out of it. It's very frustrating. I thought we had a great chance to win that ballgame right there. - Dusty Baker

You have to believe at this point that the new Iranian president is willing to use oil as a weapon, if only for a symbolic week or two to create a crisis, exact some concessions from the West and then defuse the situation. - John Kilduff

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. - Henry Louis Gates

You don't have to have the entire symbolic leadership of the forces and the nation for the fatalities coming back. - Lewis MacKenzie

You could tell another story - they could run off together and live in a more liberal place. But I think because he is essentially made out of pieces lying around a room, he's symbolic rather than real in many ways. - Matthew Bourne

Yes, there is a symbolic component to this initiative. But although there's a symbolic component, there will be far-reaching benefits to it, and it will make a distinct and tangible difference. - Fred Elbel

Within this thin wafer of bread is caught up symbolically the labor of plow and of sowing, of harvest and threshing, of milling, of packing, of transportation, of financing, of selling and packaging. Man's industrial life is all there. - Wilford O. Cross

With the aim of carrying out serious crimes together with other Islamic fundamentalist groups abroad, to attack the U.S. in a spectacular way through the destruction of symbolic buildings. - Kay Nehm

With so many symbolic gatherings in the next few months, we must be aggressive. - Tom Ridge