Granite Quotes

68 quotes by 63 authors

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos… — Yvon Chouinard
Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is… — J. Reuben Clark
The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the… — Charles Reznikoff
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 granite, with a… — Cornell Woolrich
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that… — Chris Bonington
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity… — Tove Jansson
Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your… — Scott Snyder
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the… — John Steinbeck
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those… — Primo Levi
Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things;… — Lewis Mumford
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,… — Mohammed Dib
He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite. — H. L. Mencken
Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops… — Nadia Giosia
I got a granite chin. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his… — Alfred Armand Montapert
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know… — Ansel Adams
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. — Gustave Flaubert
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye… — Ezra Pound

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