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
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
The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through… — Don Kardong 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
Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My… — Carol Ann Duffy 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
“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the… — Tove Jansson 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
I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper… — John Steinbeck 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
I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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
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
My home kitchen is airy, with a gas stove, a stainless-steel island table in the center and granite countertops. It's very modest… — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of,… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I received my Master's degree from the University of Utah while coaching at Granite High School. I obtained my doctorate from BYU… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved… — Queen Victoria 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
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
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
Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid… — Zahi Hawass 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
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
