Stone Quotes

1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors

Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if… — Miriam Toews
Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had… — Carolyn Parkhurst
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous… — Che Guevara
Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart… — Loren Eiseley
He did a very good impression of a stone column. — Shannon Hale
If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with… — Arthur Golden
These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there. — Terry Pratchett
This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her… — Jodi Picoult
I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the… — David James Duncan
Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It… — Alice Hoffman
Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like… — John Muir
Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep… — Garth Nix
Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast. — Quentin Tarantino
Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. — Adrienne Rich
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone. — Vladimir Nabokov
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm… — Jonathan Franzen
Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and… — Jonathan Lethem
Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The… — Kim Harrison
The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll… — Jodi Picoult
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and… — Ray Bradbury
A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly… — Marge Piercy
And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apart.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns… — Gene Wolfe
Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take… — Deb Caletti

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