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Copper Quotes & Sayings

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The taste of chalk. The sun lays its copper thumbs on my eyelids. The radio plays the monologue of a dog. What is the formula for tomorrow? — Warren Heiti

Hollis Copper knows that everyone has a story and if you want to speak to someone, you better find a way to speak to his or her story. — Chuck Wendig

Little lumps of lead in copper jackets were crisscrossing the woods under the shellbursts, zipping along much faster than sound. — Kurt Vonnegut

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources. — Bill Gates

I thought of the girl who bathed in a copper tub. I thought of the woman who stole a bullet mold. I loved that girl, that woman. — Sue Monk Kidd

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow. — Chanakya

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints. — Taylor Caldwell

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner. — Catherine Helen Spence

Jinn ... occupy bodies which are in a liminal state ... when consciousness is a sheet of copper beaten down, mirroring only the moment — J.M. Ledgard

An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea. — Herman Melville

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation. — Barbara Ehrenreich

The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck. — Eric Bristow

At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me. — Chris Burden

Iron turns red when it corrodes, and copper turns green. Meat turns to maggots, and thoughts turn to speech. — Stepan Chapman

This special green is the result of high copper concentration in the soil. — Robert Anton Wilson

My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime. — Donald Coggan

Sometimes the ship would sail above dark storm clouds, as big as mountains, and the crew would fish for lightning bolts with a small copper chest. — Neil Gaiman

Hydrated copper aluminum phosphate - Turquoise. — Kim Dare

If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do. — John Piper

He could lose himself in the copper warmth of her eyes. Except, no, this wasn't losing himself. This was finding something precious. — Melissa Tagg

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold. — Rumi

Why can't I remember that not once have I ever seen a coin, whether grimy copper or bright gold, that had but one side. — Andrew Levkoff

Life blindsides you so hard you can taste the bright copper blood in your mouth then it beguiles you with a gift of profound and appalling beauty. — William Gay

Deep in the muddled darkness six copper pheasant feathers glowed in a cradle of blackthorn. — Helen Macdonald

Up to a point, Lord Copper. — Evelyn Waugh

You can't see yourself all over. But I can. Part of you is honey, part of you is copper, some of you is gold
— James Baldwin

was achingly hollow inside, her words dropping like copper pennies down an empty well. — Natasha Boyd

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.' — Douglas Brinkley

His eyes looked pale green this afternoon, the color of corroded copper. — Cara McKenna

but, as we know, even when the silver wears away and you're left with copper, if you attend to it every day it has a gleam all its own. — Mark Helprin

You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home. — Marie Lloyd

As lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on. — Charles Dickens

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armor shouting All the Gods are bastards! — Terry Pratchett

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do. — John Piper

Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath. — Laurence Yep

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning. — Jodi Picoult

You lost your copper as well as your faith in wishes, and prayers. — Gregory Maguire

He held out the pendant in the palm of his hand.
"Happy birthday, Copper," he whispered. — Sharon Lynn Fisher

Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance? — Claudia Pineiro

His copper hair curled at the edges, and his smile could light a thousand cities. — C.D. Reiss

And on Ammu's road (to Age and Death) a small, sunny meadow appeared. Copper grass spangled with blue butterflies. Beyond it, an abyss. — Arundhati Roy

As far as we could see, the miles of copper red grass were drenched in sunlight that was stronger and fiercer than at any other time of day — Willa Cather

He wore pink linen slacks, white sneakers and a canary yellow open-neck shirt. He evidently thought himself hot stuff. — Basil Copper

The blood spurted from his neck and hit a copper pot hanging on the wall. — Elena Ferrante

FROM MYSELF I am copper,
through You, friend, I am gold.
From myself I'm a stone, but
through You I am a gem! — Rumi

You take the lead. He'll open up more easily to a copper than a mumbo jumbo man — Val McDermid

Then I smiled at her, right before I grbbed a handful of copper hair and yanked her out of the chair. Screw being a better person. — Jenny Trout

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. — Thomas Hood

The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm. — Henry David Thoreau

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth. — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

vague as a soft copper pulse of moonlight through blossoming sea coast fog. — Ellen Hopkins

Coins from half a hundred distant cities, silver and gold, copper and bronze, square coins and round coins, triangles and rings and bits of bone — George R R Martin