Personification Quotes

Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making it a reality. She was a very wise lady. She was a people person. She was very sensitive to the importance of recognizing people.

I was a little bit wary of playing Nicholas. In the script, which I think is true of the novel and the film, he’s the only character not singing and dancing in a musical style. Playing someone who is the personification of good is a little difficult.

I don’t want to get corny, but my career really has been the personification of the American dream.

K. Thiagarajan is a painfully shy young man. But he is the human personification of the idiom ‘Still waters run deep.’

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

No. He’s the personification of human fear. (Leta) Oh, goody. Just what I wanted to add to my dream. Should we invite him over for tea? (Aiden)

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one’s own identity.

God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!

Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an idealist; he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader.

Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.

The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius.

If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.

In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

President Trump is, some ways, the personification of a new Bolshevism of the Right, where the ends justify the means and acceptable tactics include lies and smears and the exploitation of what Lenin called ‘useful idiots.’

Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous–a living, breathing Batman.

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together… Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but the first two times.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

I once hosted the Butcher Shop of the Year Awards. There’s nothing like performing to the personification of the phrase a ‘sausage fest’ to hammer home how you’ve hit the big time.

Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man.

The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he’s real

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?” “Then what died? who are you mourning?” “A point of view.