The boy could melt granite with that smile.

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

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

“All White House hopefuls we forewarn: You'll have to prove that you were born. Before Trump hits the state of granite, He must identify…

— Calvin Trillin

“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

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