Limestone Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
— William Butler Yeats
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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. But most of…
— David B. Haight
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My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets…
— Bruce Sterling
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The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs…
— Jeremy Jackson
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Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like…
— Chris Martin
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You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood…
— Peter Zumthor
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It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new…
— Anna Quindlen
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If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt.…
— John McPhee
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When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived…
— John McPhee
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We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of…
— Rick Riordan
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I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what it is that…
— Franny Billingsley
Who Wrote These Limestone Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Limestone Quotes as follows: