Iron Quotes

“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

“Iron might weep, but it did not break.”
― Susan Dennard, Windwitch

“I come to a world of iron to make a world of gold.”
― Cervantes

“Still, how can someone live with a lock like that? Made of ancient iron, reeking of rust.”
― Misba, The Oldest Dance

“Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

“This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Which is colder, the hand or the gun?”
― Anthony Liccione

“Ma di cosa sei fatta, tu?"
"Di quello che ami" disse lei. "Più l'acciaio.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

“When iron and carbon come together, there emerges steel! To be something stronger and better, you must mostly unite with something else and melt in something else!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Q: What genres do you especially enjoy reading? And which do you avoid?

A: I love reading anything about gigantic animate blobs of molten iron who secretly long to be concert pianists. It’s not a particularly well-populated genre, but in particular I’d mention, “Grog, Who Loved Chopin,” as well as the somewhat derivative “Clom, Big Fan of Mozart.”
― George Saunders

“most of the iron that has found its way into the Earth's core and its surface rocks - and into our own blood, as well - once existed in white dwarfs that exploded”
― Isaac Asimov, The Relativity of Wrong

“Iron sharpens iron," I quoted the old proverb. "If she is made of fine silk and you of iron, she will smother you. Or perhaps you will shred her.”
― Jody Hedlund, Evermore

“The iron that makes our blood red was made in the final moments before a star died. For all of us, then, our very lifeblood began with a spectacular death in a solar system.”
― Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

“Iron imbalance is a feature of COVID-19.”
― Steven Magee, Long COVID Supplements

“I am the rightful khan of the nation. I am the gur-khan. My word is iron and my word is law.”
― Conn Iggulden, Conqueror

“Below lies the dark core, that great iron ball beneath all things. Its compressed weight is fantastic; it is older than time itself. It is a vestige of the blackness that predates all existence, when a formless universe existed in a state of chaotic un-creation, lacking awareness even of itself.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“My God Made Me With A Rod Of Iron, Therefore, I Am Not Afraid Of The Ten Thousands Of Men Whose Throats Are An Open Sepulchre, Seeking For Whom To Devour.”
― Elijah Onyenmeriogu

“I noticed a positive effect when I suspected very high altitude anemia damage may be present and started to treat it with a 65 mg iron supplement daily in 2018.”
― Steven Magee

“Elon Musk versus Steven Magee is akin to Iron Man versus Forest Man.”
― Steven Magee

“For now, the world of Altadas was mostly an empty desert, but in the future it might be a world of iron.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“Reminiscences of old, dried-over pains were no consolation in the face of this. They had the effect of cold beads of water on a hot iron - they danced and fizzled up while the room stank from their steam.”
― Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place

“Faith is an iron that flattens the creases of fear in our minds.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes

“He was likely the only one who realized there was a will of iron under the porcelain.”
― Regina Scott, Never Court a Count

“Pernicious Anemia translates into fatal blood deficiency, as a century ago it killed many of the people that developed it. It was a horrible and prolonged death process. It was later discovered that feeding raw liver to the patients would treat it. Today the condition is treated with vitamin B12 and iron supplements.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Iron deficiency anemia is a global pandemic!”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“only the trees of Aule will be tall enough. In the mountains the Eagles shall house, and hear the voices of those who call upon us. But in the forest shall walk the Shepard of the Trees.'
Then Manwe and Yavanna parted for that time, and Yavanna returned to Aule, and he was in him smithy, pouring molten metal into a mould. 'Eru is bountiful,' she said. 'Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril.'
'Nonetheless they will have need of wood,' said Aule, and he went on with his smith-work.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“Iron deficiency is the most common of the nutritional metal deficiencies in humans.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“Iron dyshomeostasis and anaemia are common after COVID-19 infection.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“Iron does not take a single form whilst forsaking all others. The strength of iron is in its flexibility, its capacity to adapt to suit any situation.”
― Matt Westbrook, Medusan Wings