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
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
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
I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses. — John Squire
God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one. — Tony Evans
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. — Michelangelo
The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too. — Paulo Coelho
Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me. — Tahereh Mafi
Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch. — Dave McPherson
One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret. — Jessica Pallington West
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
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
Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement. — Dale Carnegie
To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder. — David Ben-Gurion
If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from. — Mark Nepo
I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones. — Anthony Liccione
Some time ago, a man filled with sorrow handed me a bag filled with hope. Those stones were in that bag, — Kristen Ashley
Sometimes I float along the riverFor 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
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
When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it's planted in stone — Tupac Shakur
The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature. — Isamu Noguchi
The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be discerned. — Patrick W. Carr
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
But stones, too, can lie. — Amy Hennig
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. — Isaac Watts
It is easy to throw stones; it is hard to build a house of stones. — Poppy
I'm not insane, I'm neurologically variant," she snapped back. "Sticks and stones, asshole. — Mira Grant
We want to evolve; like the Stones. — Justin Timberlake
A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible. — George Ade
Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life. — Craig Groeschel
It's never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones. — Steve Maraboli
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
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
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
Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground. — Alan Cohen
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
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
Ideas and creeds are represented as unheeding stones as the ends of human longing. — Justin Cartwright
When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up. — Andrew Garfield
In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones. — Mao Zedong
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
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
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
Some days simply lay on you like stones. — Patrick Rothfuss
Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone. — Laozi
I should have wanted you. I wanted so much to want you. — Elizabeth Morgan
Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones! — William Shakespeare
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
Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones. — Jim Sullivan
The Stone the Builders Rejected. — Jack London
It is freezing fit to split a stone. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones. — Ian Gardner
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
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
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
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. — Ovid
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts. — Herbert Spencer
Don't be afraid to make mistakes; they are just the stepping-stones to success. — Louis Zamperini
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones. — Sachin Tendulkar
With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network. — Jonathan Alter
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
Constant dropping wears away stones — Benjamin Franklin
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty. — Herbert Hoover
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
I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall. — Christopher Walken
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
We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms. — M.F. Moonzajer
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
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
Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann
I decided that I was supposed to be here to catch some of the stones people cast at each other. — Bryan Stevenson
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. — Martin Luther
Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace. — George Bernard Shaw
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
