Granite Quotes: top 36 famous quotes about Granite

Granite Quotes & Sayings

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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. — Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

a black granite cube containing only the character mu — Patti Smith

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. — Gustave Flaubert

The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world. — Yvon Chouinard

-it's life... In all its granite hardness. — Ken Bruen

granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, — Anthony Doerr

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. — Ansel Adams

I must not only keep alive, but I must be as strong as granite, so that no matter how much I was knocked about, I could remain unbroken. — Nien Cheng

Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. — David Mitchell

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive. — Yvon Chouinard

The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds. — Sabine Baring-Gould

Men could be as big as a house and made of granite, but they all had balls in the same place. — Stieg Larsson

Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion. — Alfred Armand Montapert

Listen. Outside this frame I can see light,
heavy as pardon, reliable as granite.
Help me. Help me drag it into the picture. — Jeanne Murray Walker

Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of. — John R. Erickson

Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable. — James Ramsey Ullman

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules. — Douglas Wilson

I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats. — Frank Tuttle

One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of the souls. — Sorin Cerin

Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world. — Ron Kauk

The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow. — Mary Howitt

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange. — Nadia Giosia

wreck Lucian's apartment, cry more than a newborn baby, and finally leave crotch drool all over his granite countertops. — Sydney Landon

His word was granite, the loyalty he gave and demanded unquestionable. Cross him and die. There were no warnings. — Thomas Benigno

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a steamroller. — Subhas Chandra Bose

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite. — H.L. Mencken

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system. — Thomas Guthrie

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene. — James Allen

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. — Heywood Broun

until the original mountain peak now raked the sky like the ornately carved tusk of some great, grey, granite beast. — Neil Gaiman

It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite. — Kevin Jorgeson