All White House hopefuls we forewarn: You'll have to prove…

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a…

— Mary Higgins Clark

I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to…

— Haile Selassie

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for…

— John Steinbeck

“Men could be as big as a house and made of granite, but they all had balls in the same place.”

— Stieg Larsson

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter…

— Nadia Giosia

“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic…

— Tove Jansson

The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“The waves smash against rocks, boulder thunders upon bolder. Granite men grind one another, leaving their clean sand to floor the ocean. The alternative…

— Haniel Long

Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart…

— Carol Ann Duffy

“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's body, your…

— Wilhelm Reich

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

— James Ramsey Ullman

The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van…

— Don Kardong

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have…

— Mark Twain

Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I…

— Gail Carson Levine