Stones Quotes

Life is like that. Some days are diamonds and some days are stones.

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.

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

Our job if you will, is to roll the stone away. God's job is to raise the dead.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house And if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth Cause I'll break your face...

I think that everything should be a stepping stone for something bigger and better and if there is something bigger then why not go on after it?

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

One who can move mountains start with the little stones.

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth.

Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love demons become the servants of God.

Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Time is the most precious element of human existence.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

I judge wisely...as if nothin ever surprise me, Loungin, between two pillars of ivory. I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece. My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.