Limestone Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Limestone Quotes by John McPhee
• 1 Limestone Quote by William Butler Yeats
• 1 Limestone Quote by Bruce Sterling
• 1 Limestone Quote by Jeremy Jackson
• 1 Limestone Quote by Chris Martin
• 1 Limestone Quote by Peter Zumthor
• 1 Limestone Quote by Anna Quindlen
• 1 Limestone Quote by Rick Riordan
• 1 Limestone Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Limestone Quote by Franny Billingsley
• 1 Limestone Quote by David B. Haight
• 1 Limestone Quote by Marc Ian Barasch