Stones Quotes
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She came out here ... turned this way, must have trod on these stones often. Let me follow in her steps.
— Charles Dickens
People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones
— Amy Klobuchar
I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".
— Al Kooper
A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.
— Karin Slaughter
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
— Alexander Pope
There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Let them speak as lewdly as they list of me ... as long as they do not hit me, what am I the worse?
— Thomas More
The old saw that "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me" does not, in fact, hold true.
— Gerry Spence
Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.
— Chrissie Wellington
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
— William Carlos Williams
I am not ashamed of my failures. It is only a foot-stones for building my success.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.
— Groucho Marx
Laughter changes to screams, blood stains pastel stones, real smoke darkens the special effect stuff made for television.
— Suzanne Collins
Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
— Oscar Wilde
I wanted a real band. I wanted the Rolling Stones, the Beatles.
— Christopher Owens
You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad. — William Shakespeare
And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad. — William Shakespeare
I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.
— Jose Canseco
Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.
— J. Oswald Sanders
People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl.
— Elizabeth Jagger
Deep in the Underthing, stones warm beneth her feet, Auri heard a faint, sweet strain of music.
— Patrick Rothfuss
The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
— John Heywood
The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.
— Thomas J. Stanley
Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
— George Bernard Shaw
She is not like me. She knows only the tree of life. She has not seen its twisted roots pawing stones and coffins.
— Hannah Kent
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
— Martin Luther
It is freezing fit to split a stone.
— Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
The Stone the Builders Rejected.
— Jack London
When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over.
— Steve Stoute
Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!
— William Shakespeare
Vince Mcmahon may have bought this ring but if you get your *ss in it Stone Colds going to throw your *ss out of it
— Stone Cold Steve Austin
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
— William McDonough
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.
— Cennino Cennini
In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.
— Mao Zedong
I should have wanted you. I wanted so much to want you.
— Elizabeth Morgan
Some days simply lay on you like stones.
— Patrick Rothfuss
If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.
— Chris Cornell
I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.
— Christopher Walken
We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms.
— M.F. Moonzajer
We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
— Herbert Hoover
Constant dropping wears away stones
— Benjamin Franklin
I find myself wanting to study his lower abdomen, where the muscles are like stepping stones leading the way down to Mr. Happy.
— Kristen Callihan
Sharon Stone has the kind of face I'd leave my wife for. Since I'm not married, I'll have to leave someone else's wife.
— Buck Henry
With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.
— Jonathan Alter
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.
— Henry David Thoreau
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.
— Sachin Tendulkar
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
— Herbert Spencer
I decided that I was supposed to be here to catch some of the stones people cast at each other.
— Bryan Stevenson
If you throw stones on my way to stumble and I fall, you try to put extra care when passing my way, lest you stumble and fall.
— Miguel El Portugues
I'm reading Keith Richards' autobiography. I didn't even know he could read, never mind write. Probably all recorded off a Marshall amplifier.
— Sienna McQuillen
The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be discerned.
— Patrick W. Carr
The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.
— Isamu Noguchi
When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Sometimes I float along the river
For its surface I am bound
And there are times stones done fill my pockets
And it's into this river I drown — T.J. Klune
For its surface I am bound
And there are times stones done fill my pockets
And it's into this river I drown — T.J. Klune
Some time ago, a man filled with sorrow handed me a bag filled with hope. Those stones were in that bag,
— Kristen Ashley
But stones, too, can lie.
— Amy Hennig
To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.
— David Ben-Gurion
Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.
— Dale Carnegie
the Kauravas and the Pandavas turned from demi-gods into cave men, the great war reduced to a tribal feud fought with sticks and stones.
— William Dalrymple
He'd seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.
— Sheri Webber
One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret.
— Jessica Pallington West
Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
— Dave McPherson
The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.
— Paulo Coelho
That you know flag flying over the courthouse Means certain things are set in stone Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.
— Bruce Springsteen
The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.
— Jon Bon Jovi
I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.
— Wolfman Jack
God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one.
— Tony Evans
I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses.
— John Squire
When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.
— Andrew Garfield
Ideas and creeds are represented as unheeding stones as the ends of human longing.
— Justin Cartwright
Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].
— Alicia Keys
Call upon the Goddess and God to protect you and teach you the secrets of magic.
Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen. — Scott Cunningham
Ask stones and plants to reveal their powers - and listen. — Scott Cunningham
Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.
— Alan Cohen
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
— Anton Chekhov
There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.
— Syd Barrett
And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.
— Gary North
It's never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones.
— Steve Maraboli
Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life.
— Craig Groeschel
A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.
— George Ade
We want to evolve; like the Stones.
— Justin Timberlake