Stone Quotes

1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry. — Khalil Gibran
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT Baden-Powell CHIEF… — Robert Baden-Powell
What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool… — Michael Shermer
Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender… — Savielly Tartakower
Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but… — Jill Lepore
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 â€” 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 â€” 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

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