Symbols
The official symbol of Pi Beta Phi is the arrow and the unofficial mascot is the angel. The badge (pin) is a golden arrow. The pledge pin is a golden arrowhead with the Greek letter Βeta. The fraternity colors are wine and silver blue. The official flower is the wine carnation. The crest is a lozenge emblazoned with the crest of the Brownlee family, two of whom were founders of the fraternity.
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Famous quotes containing the word symbols:
“The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.”
—Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911)
“Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.”
—Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac (1619–1655)
“My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, the practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.”
—Andy Warhol (1928–1987)