Stones Quotes

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers)

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus Christ as the Cornerstone.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor.

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

I have seen a place-its name is Eternal Hatred It is built in the deepest abyss of the stones of mortal sin. Pride was the first stone-this was seen in Lucifer.

Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths

Inside the peach, there is a stone.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

[joking about the length of the Rolling Stones' career] You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

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.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.