Stone Quotes

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Every foundation stone that is laid for a Temple, and every Temple completed according to the order the Lord has revealed for his holy Priesthood,… — George Q. Cannon
The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother… — B. H. Roberts
Child and serpent, star and stone — all one. — P L Travers
As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone, so you obtain… — Sarada Devi
Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas. — Vivian Stanshall
Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundations of… — Stephen Johnson Field
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests… — Stephen Johnson Field
We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling. — Mira Bartok
Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and… — Merle Shain
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin… — Frederick Soddy
He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES. — Izaak Walton
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. — Ambrose Bierce
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. — Alexander Pope
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten… — Andy Goldsworthy
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron… — Robinson Jeffers
I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment.… — Ernest Lawrence
God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone. — Oscar Wilde
There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor — Robert Green Ingersoll
There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding… — Laozi
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill
A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand… — Victor Hugo
It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt. — Andy Goldsworthy
Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy -… — Steven Strogatz

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