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Stone Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the…
- Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for…
- Faërie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the…
- Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.
- The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden,…
- Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet;…
- A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment,…
- Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like…
- Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner…
- Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over…
- Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails…
- They shall sleep now in the darkness under stone, and shall not come forth until the Firstborn have awakened upon Earth.
More Stone Quotes
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. — Francis Bacon
- Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and… — Ansel Adams
- I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone. — Tyra Banks
- Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not… — P T Barnum
- People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain… — Todd Barry
- Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's… — Halle Berry
- Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis. — Nuno Bettencourt
- On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in… — Nellie Bly
- Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. — Jorge Luis Borges
- I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. — David Bowie