Granite Quotes

68 Granite quotes by 63 unique authors

How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only… — Rachel Naomi Remen
I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember… — Gail Carson Levine
People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the… — Franz Kafka
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that:… — Ronald Reagan
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel… — Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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 is something not… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle… — Don Kardong
If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat… — Philippe Petit
There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules. — Douglas Wilson
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. — Heywood Broun
Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and… — Zahi Hawass
The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale,… — Antoine Lavoisier
Breasts like granite and a brain like swiss cheese. — Billy Wilder
New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a… — Unknown Author
One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of… — Sorin Cerin
''The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.'' — Thomas Carlyle

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