Rocks Quotes
3110 Rocks quotes by 1895 unique authors
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A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.
— William Ross Wallace
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When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall…
— William Jacob Holland
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I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
— Ayn Rand
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The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to be the purpose…
— Unknown Author
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock…
— George Steiner
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The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?...We are trying…
— Robert Plant
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt…
— Patti Smith
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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad…
— Florence King
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Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock…
— Carl Sandburg
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Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished…
— John Playfair
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"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when it was, it…
— Elisha Gray
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Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they…
— Paul Simon
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Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt…
— Conor Oberst
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You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have…
— Jimmy Webb
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Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave…
— James A. Baldwin
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Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A Botticelli angel, a…
— Naomi Ragen
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In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.
— Lin Brehmer
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