Stones Quotes

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

Too much success is not an advantage. Do not tinkle like jade Or clatter like stone chimes.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones.

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.

Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones.

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.

No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

We are stone enemies when the bell rings

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

Failure is a stepping stone to success.