Stones Quotes

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.

What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses.

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.

I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.

Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.

The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

I don't like things set in stone.

Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.

When a man's ways please God, the stones of the street shall be at peace with him.

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both."

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men.

Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad.

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones!

Clouds are just nature's stepping stones to the heavens.

Our confidence is not in what we have, but He who freely gave us what we have. If God's will is in your little stones, they will surely bring down giant Goliaths... but you have to make the throw!

Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds...

There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God's voice mingling among the crystal fires.

Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.

Take the stones that failure throws at you and build legacies the world will always remember you for.

Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.

Let everyone evolve fast and understand humanity. Let the heart of stones be converted into heart of love.

On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.

Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.

One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret.

That old man over thereIs selling trinkets made of stonesThat old woman the entire worldIn a map without any hole!

The great mountains of wars and conflicts in the world can only be removed by picking up tiny stones of hatred and anger bit by bit. We must all be involved!

Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words were always the hardest.

The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them.

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

Sense howEven the smooth stones acheWith stories of their ownIn the shuddering light of day.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you can live fully in the present. When you live in the present moment the greater you can build stepping stones for a brighter future.