Stone Quotes
1677 Stone quotes by 1136 unique authors
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I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one…
— Carl Jung
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You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock." "Very amusing, my sarcastic friend.…
— Cassandra Clare
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... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth,…
— Selma Lagerlöf
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but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was…
— Alice Sebold
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Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the…
— Harper Lee
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But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
— Alan Bennett
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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I…
— H.G. Wells
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Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards…
— William Golding
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Nothing is written stone, child. Even if it were, the stones can be shattered
— Melanie Rawn
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As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the Capitol,…
— Suzanne Collins
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
— Charlotte Bronte
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I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.
— Cecelia Ahern
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He has resisted Temptation for Centuries, A stone cold warrior whose frozen heart refuses to thaw- Until Her..
— Tina St. John
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Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
— Haruki Murakami
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Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it.…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
— A. E. Housman
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Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth…
— Jonathan Stroud
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True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel…
— Unknown Author
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The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
— Lauren Oliver
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A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment,…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls…
— Lauren Oliver
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