Quotes About Stone

Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

That the stars are adamant everyone understands— but I won't give up seeking joy on each blue wave or peace below every gray stone.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone.

Looking at the fire on the stone.

Whatever is not stone is light

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

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

There's a lot of bleeding idiots in t'country and they deserve some representation.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

And it was telling that it took forty-three years to rebuild the single bridge across the Liffey after it collapsed in 1385, and that it was the abbot of St Mary's Abbey, not the justiciar or the merchants, who eventually oversaw the construction of what was the first fully stone bridge.

140 What until now has passed for 'civilization' might in fact be nothing more than a gendered appropriation – by men, etching their claims in stone – of some earlier system of knowledge that had women at its centre.

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.