Stone Quotes

1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors

At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will… — Crazy Horse
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of… — William Osler
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. — Robert Toombs
I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those… — H P Lovecraft
The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from… — Peace Pilgrim
Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay. — John Muir
There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age… — Frederick Lenz
There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a… — Alan Jackson
MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow. — Enson Inoue
MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow... The stress and the fears and anxiety you've got to… — Enson Inoue
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could… — William Butler Yeats
I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some… — Joe Bradley
Step by step, a path; stone by stone, a cathedral,' my great-grandfather used to say. — Phil Cousineau
Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by… — Robert Green Ingersoll
If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s… — Ulrike Meinhof
A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone and… — Karen Armstrong
The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one, all moving to the same… — P L Travers
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know… — Ansel Adams
Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone… — Robert Mugabe
It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who… — Sudhir Kakar
The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of… — Aurangzeb
That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone! — William Wordsworth

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