Stones Quotes

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

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me — Chuck Klosterman

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

Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock ... — Evan Harris

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 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

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