Granite Quotes

68 Granite quotes by 63 unique authors

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
Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of… — Jason Reitman
I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that… — Parker Stevenson
I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as… — Edward Abbey
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be… — Aldous Huxley
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in… — Gary Snyder
To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes,… — J M Coetzee
If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras. "Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever." "Oh I expect you… — David Gemmell
Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from… — John Muir
There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing —… — Emily Dickinson

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