Stone Quotes - page 2

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. (Amy Tan)
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. View quote
Christina Rossetti
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart-hearts are made to be broken-but that it turns one's heart to stone. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise King born of all England. View quote
Thomas Malory
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. View quote
Henry Rollins
This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them. View quote
Yasser Arafat
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. View quote
Francis Bacon
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. View quote
Johnny Cash
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. View quote
Vitruvius
The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity Himself from God he could not free He builded better than he knew The conscious stone to beauty grew. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. (Christopher Hitchens)
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. (Rolling Stone magazine 1997) View quote
Robert Smith (musician)
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. View quote
David Bowie
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. View quote
Michelangelo
The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. View quote
Pericles
We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone. View quote
Arthur Miller
He told me once that there is no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along - trying to wound his faith in order to test it - and I was just another stone in the way of his God. View quote
Colum McCann
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. View quote
Jerome
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. View quote
Tadao Ando
I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. View quote
Charlie Trotter
There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone. (Dweezil Zappa)
I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement. View quote
Gary Cherone
I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone. View quote
Muddy Waters
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life. View quote
Charles Darwin