Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star.… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a… — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill. The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face Was worn as limestone on… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“When I try to imagine a faultless love Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur Of underground streams,… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a… — Jeremy Jackson Copy Share Image
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
We've had a wonderful, wonderful life together. We've been in many places, we've had the experiences, and now we have the memories.… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
“Among the many benefits of “limestone water” was the fact that it came out of the ground at about 50 degrees Fahrenheit,… — Amy Stewart Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
