Mármore
# Mármore

Mármore é uma rocha metamórfica originada de calcário exposto a altas temperaturas e pressão, utilizada em em pisos e ornamentação, na construção civil.
       - but in every block of marble I see a statue,--see it as distinctly As if it stood before me shaped and perfect In attitude and action. I have only To hew away the stone walls that imprison The lovely apparition, and reveal it To other eyes as mine already see it.
          - Michelangelo Buonarroti citado em International journal of religious education: Volume 23 - página 23, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Division of Christian Education, International Council of Religious Education - 1946
       - What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
          - Joseph Addison; "The Spectator (1711-1714)"; No. 215 (6 de novembro de 1711)
       - La cour est comme un édifice bâti de marbre : je veux dire qu’elle est composée d’hommes fort durs, mais fort polis
          - Les Caractères, ou les mœurs de ce siècle, La Bruyère, éd. Estienne Michallet, 1696 - De la cour (veja wikisource, item I0 (VI))
       - Aldous Huxley, in: "Contraponto", 1928
       - We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. [...] We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory
          - One - página 118, Richard Bach - Dell, 1989, ISBN 044020562X, 9780440205623 - 400 páginas