Quotes with granite

  • Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''

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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bernard Berenson German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Heywood Broun Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ezra Pound The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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