Quotes with stones

  • Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.
  • Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
  • The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
  • If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
  • We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was Jumpin' Jack Flash. It was really bad. So we started writing our own — it was easier.
  • Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
  • Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William Faulkner The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Annie Leibovitz At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Frances Rodman Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
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  • Annie Dillard Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • John L. Motley Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
    John L. Motley
     
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  • Benjamin Franklin Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Albert Einstein I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Barry Gibb I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Bill Wyman If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • Anne Bronte If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Bryan Callen If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Bobby Keys It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.
    Bobby Keys
    American saxophonist (1943 - 2014)
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  • Bob Dylan Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
    Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Marsha Sinetar Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
    Marsha Sinetar
    American writer
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