Block Quote by Ezra Pound

The Stones were always exemplary of one of the best of all rock qualities: tightness. They have always been economical, the opposite of ornamental.…

— Jon Landau

The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

— Julie Orringer

“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire,…

— Alan Weisman

“The hardest stone to cut and carve is within us.”

— Stevan V. Nikolic

Cutting for Stone is nothing short of masterful -a riveting tale of love, medicine, and the complex dynamic of twin brothers. It is beautifully…

— Richard Selzer

“You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way.”

— Erich Kästner

“A fief, the elder Hosokawa had advised, was like a castle wall built of many rocks. A rock that could not be cut to…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

— Isamu Noguchi

With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

— Plato

Today is the blocks with which we build.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow