England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“Men could be as big as a house and made of granite, but they all had balls in the same place.” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“All White House hopefuls we forewarn: You'll have to prove that you were born. Before Trump hits the state of granite, He… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras. "Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever." "Oh… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
Currents of energy shimmer through our bodies. Like shooting stars, we rocket through spacious stillness. But this silent, unmoving background is nothing… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect,… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May stand yet,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with… — Nadia Giosia Copy Share Image
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The… — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow. — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world. — Ron Kauk Copy Share Image
It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauz… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
