Stone Quotes

1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors

Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece. — Anaxagoras
J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because… — Ambrose Bierce
If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions… — Terence McKenna
In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture -… — Swami Vivekananda
Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. New generations tread on the corpses of… — Nikos Kazantzakis
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines;… — Theodore Roethke
There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile… — Agnes Martin
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end… — W. Somerset Maugham
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles… — Leonardo da Vinci
WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken,… — James Salter
Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can… — Daisaku Ikeda
Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience--the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see… — Arianna Huffington
Don't you need a fountain of love that won't run dry? You'll find one on a stone-cropped hill outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus hangs, cross-nailed… — Max Lucado
The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone. — Paul Krugman
Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000… — Denis Hayes
Everything changes, even stone. — Claude Monet
The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of… — Laini Taylor
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents… — Robert Frost

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