Stony Quotes

49 Stony quotes by 41 unique authors

What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. — Theodore Dreiser
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers,… — Garrison Keillor
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case. — Hilary Mantel
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. — James Joyce
The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His… — Katherine Dunn
The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot… — Anna Akhmatova
Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling along the way,… — Tabitha Suzuma
But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as… — James A. Baldwin
The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil… — Isabel Allende
Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,… — Anthony Burgess
When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies… — Charles Baxter
That's a lot of vegetables. "It is, yes, and if you eat them like a good girl..." He lifted the silver lid on another plate,… — Nora Roberts
I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
'And I will give you a new heart, And I will put a new spirit in you I will take out your stubborn stony heart,… — Andrew Guzaldo
He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony — African Proverb
Show honor now, show them a stony heart and sink them with it! — John Proctor
A small chisel can break a rock, like a true love can melt a stony heart! — Unknown Author
With loves light wings did I o'perch this walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out. - Romeo — William Shakespeare

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41 authors contributed a total of 49 Stony Quotes, led by these top contributors: