Stone Quotes

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. (Sigmund Freud)
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. View quote
Émile Zola
Leave no stone unturned. View quote
Euripides
Under every stone lurks a politician. View quote
Aristophanes
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. View quote
Pericles
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. View quote
Charles Darwin
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. View quote
Ramakrishna
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. View quote
Albert Camus
A rolling stone can gather no moss. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? View quote
William Butler Yeats
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. View quote
Lucretius
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power. View quote
Thomas Malthus
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. (José Rizal)
With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me dye; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lye. View quote
Alexander Pope
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. View quote
Robert Frost
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. View quote
Beatrix Potter