The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite,… — Rachel Naomi Remen 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
“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today… — Alan Weisman 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
Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite… — C. A. Bartol 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
The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with… — Charles Reznikoff 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
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
We've had a wonderful, wonderful life together. We've been in many places, we've had the experiences, and now we have the memories.… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's… — Wilhelm Reich 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
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 waves smash against rocks, boulder thunders upon bolder. Granite men grind one another, leaving their clean sand to floor the ocean.… — Haniel Long Copy Share Image
Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
“The home terms still apply. The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their… — John McPhee 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
If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“The Minneapolis City Hall is not a pretty building. A pile of red granite, a sullen nineteenth-century Romanesque lump, it squats amid… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
From millions of men . . . one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why… — Ezra Pound 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
“Granite from New Hampshire has been used in construction at Arlington National Cemetery, the Library of Congress, New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, and… — Lori Baird Copy Share Image
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan… — Chris Bonington Copy Share Image
Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite… — Robert Graves 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
At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks,… — Mohammed Dib Copy Share Image
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I'm in New Mexico making a movie called "Granite Mountain." I'm playing the head of the organization called Statesman, which is the… — Jeff Bridges 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
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
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
![“At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.” quote by Mohammed Dib](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9bd/mohammed-dib-57734_all-that-remains_at-present-in-the-desert-an-exasperating_2311683.jpg)
![“I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx. At the bottom, which was filled with water, we have found a burial chamber with four pillars. In the middle is a large granite sarcophagus…” quote by Zahi Hawass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/16e/zahi-hawass-29602_bottom_i-have-found-a-shaft-going-29-meters-95_959795.jpg)
