gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for…

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart…

— Khalil Gibran

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the…

— Anonymous

Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with…

— Cassandra Clare

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

— John Herschel

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into…

— Erich Maria Remarque

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car,…

— St. Vincent

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit…

— Hilari Bell

I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even…

— William Butler Yeats

Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.…

— Cesare Pavese

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

— Brandon Mull

“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.”

— Victor Hugo

“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact…

— Alan Lightman