Stones Quotes · Page 51

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

— Anonymous

Oh boy. His chest was smooth and warm and hard as stone, and she wanted to both touch and nibble. And lick.…

— Jill Shalvis

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When life throws stones on you, pick them up and learn to use them to build the strongest, firmest foundation that no…

— Abhishek Tiwari

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was…

— Jonathan Lethem

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel…

— Simon Van Booy

The world will hit you with sticks and stones, just remember they will never break your bones.

— Sarah F

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember…

— Gordon Lightfoot

We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These…

— Cherie Piper

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking…

— Maya Angelou

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like…

— Michael Moriarty

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I…

— Mary Roach

They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is…

— Anonymous

Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather…

— Avicenna

“Look — here they come, their eyes are hagstones & their words are shingle. They rise on the shore, rock-cored, flint beings,…

— Robert Macfarlane

There have been many stones on my path, which frequently made me trip and give up, however I keep telling myself this…

— Kwon Yuri

“I am beginning to believe that we know everything, that all history, including the history of each family, is part of us,…

— Susan Griffin

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by…

— Eckhart Tolle

The Episcopalians don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages?…

— Ann Coulter

Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll…

— Aleksandra Mir

“The broken pink pillars, in the half-light, might have been waiting to fall down on him: the pool, covered with green scum,…

— Malcolm Lowry

Eazy-E was not a rapper! He was a stone cold businessman. EAZY use to say that out of His own mouth. But…

— Kokane

I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of…

— Kristan Higgins

Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.

— Jeanne Phillips

Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat.

— Jack Handey

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.' It sounds cute, but it's a complete fallacy.

— Adam Pearson

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in…

— Nellie Bly

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

— Alan Bennett

Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

— Vachel Lindsay

When you grow up in Atlanta, joining Lynyrd Skynyrd is like joining the Rolling Stones.

— Johnny Colt

I had this image before Boy George, before the Beatles, before the Rolling Stones.

— Tiny Tim

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

— Mary Kingsley

Love is not something dead, like a stone. When it melts, it encompasses everything.

— Nirmala Srivastava

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much…

— Ritchie Blackmore

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

— Richie Sambora

“That old man over there Is selling trinkets made of stones That old woman the entire world In a map without any…

— Avijeet Das

Like a stone on the surface of a still river Driving the ripples on forever Redemption rips through the surface of time…

— Bruce Cockburn