Stones Quotes

The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they're like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.

Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.

MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.

But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

Year after year. "Please don't make me go [to school]" "You have to go," Kim would say. "It's a new school, make a new start." "Sticks and stones." from Chip. Words will only kill you.

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.

The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.

The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney.

Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.

Football has always been a stepping stone for my education.

The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.