Quotes About Stones

Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones.

Curling is sweeping the nation.

And Laban said, This heap [of stones] is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

You know how diamonds—how all crystals—grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too. All the old stones accumulate stories. That little rock you're so curious about may have seen Alaric sack Rome; it may have glittered in the eyes of Pharaohs. Scythian queens might have danced all night wearing it. Wars might have been fought over it.

They're in an empty lot. The sky is jewel blue and cloudless. Huge white stones lie among weeds like the lost molars of giants.

You know how diamond—show all crystals—grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too. All the old stones accumulate stories.

Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. Some things are simply more rare than others, and that's why there are locks.

You know how diamonds–how all crystals–grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms each month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too. All the old stones accumulate stories.

People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.

'Wild Horses' is my favourite Stones song. It's so beautiful. I don't mind that it was written for Bianca.

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

The Greek inhabitants are very rich in gold and precious stones

The stones do not tell us what is going to happen, or what we are to do, any more than the stars. They speak to us only of our present position in the great pattern. Where we are now; here. Sometimes that helps us to see the pattern more clearly. That is all.

in each of those minute bowls rested a silver spoon! "So little!" marveled Lorrie. "They are carved from cherry stones, my dear.

The light-colored stones are the newest. Dark-green stones are the oldest. Some are pea-sized or smaller, and others are as big as 1 inch in diameter. There may be dozens and, sometimes, even hundreds of stones (of different sizes and colors) coming out at once (see Figure 13b).

Among masons, the joint or juncture of two stones, or the interstice between two stones to be filled up with mortar.Dict.   

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

In short, their malice is a veil to hinder   them from observing the light of God; their obstinacy renders them   harder than stones, so that they never suffer themselves to be subdued.

A similarity between fishing and this other enterprise was that no matter where along the stream you stood, there seemed to be, just down there, where the stream spilled through a narrow race around stones, or just beyond the tresses of the willows, the perfect spot, the spot you had all along intended to go to.

his eyes were exactly the color of that gleaming golden-brown moss you see on stones under the clear water of running brooks.

But then, in Piazza di Carbonara, from stones she moved on to weapons, and it became the place where men fought to the last drop of blood. Beggars and gentlemen and princes hurried to see people killing each other in revenge. When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars.

Tras tenderse al sol, las piedras guardan la memoria de sus cuerpos, los acunan, los adormecen. Max la guía. A veces la toma de la mano, a veces la suelta...