Quotes About Millstone

The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England in the destruction of the planet Earth.

Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.

Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.

Soul is the place, stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind, where such necessity grinds itself out.

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

By the pond, an old yew tree had grown against a millstone, like a finger swelling round a wedding ring.

I thought my punishment was to be eternal," her mother said. "It is the millstone I have carried about my neck for well nigh forty years. I thought I would carry it to my grave.

I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to a sharpened point and creates moments of true brilliance. And standing there, nose tickled by the dusty hide of the stuffed deer head, such a moment visited Mosca Mye.

In Mesopotamia, the wheel dates back to at least the time of Sumer. It was a basic part of life throughout Eurasia. Chariot wheels, water wheels, potter's wheels, millstone wheels—one can't imagine Europe or China without them. The only thing more mysterious than failing to invent the wheel would be inventing the wheel and then failing to use it. But that is exactly what the Indians did.

It spins. The world changes. It turns. Each time it touches the sun and the moon… it takes a new shape. The one thing that does not change… …is my powerlessness. It's turning. If fate is a millstone… …then we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel… …then give me a strong blade… …and enough strength… …to shatter fate.

It's turning. If fate is a millstone… …we are the ones that make it turn. We believe that the crushing wheel… …is guided by an infallible power.

I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.