Quotes About Stones

On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how many formations might they make And who am I ever To imagine I could know Such a marvelous business? When the sun broke It poured willingly its light Over the stones That did not move, not at all, Just as, to its always generous term, It shed its light on me, My own body that loves, Equally, to hug another body.

ON THE BEACH On the beach, at dawn: four small stones clearly hugging each other. How many kinds of love might there be in the world, and how many formations might they make and who am I ever to imagine I could know such a marvelous business? When the sun broke it poured willingly its light over the stones that did not move, not at all, just as, to its always generous term, it shed its light on me, my own body that loves, equally, to hug another body.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

A code that forbids you to cast the first stone, has forbidden you to admit the identity of stones and to know when or if you're being stoned.

Maybe it is that if these stones speak at all, they speak true,' she said softly. 'They speak what will be, not what we want to hear.

And of the Thule, who carried large stones into their camps and set them up in a pattern for a jumping game, like hopscotch.

Stones taught me to fly Love taught me to lie And life taught me to die So it's not hard to fall When you float like a cannonball.

There came a day when the Masons, laying aside their stones, became workmen of another kind, not less builders than before, but using truths for tools and dramas for designs, uplifting such a temple as Watts dreamed of decorating with his visions of the august allegory of the evolution of man.

In fondo alla Moldava vanno le pietre, / sepolti a Praga riposano tre re. / A questo mondo niente rimane uguale, / la notte più lunga eterna non è/

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one essence is every where: and the angelical world reacheth to every part, wherever you can think, even in the midst of the earth, stones, and rocks: as also hell and the kingdom of God's wrath is every where all over.

The heels of military boots, striking marble floors, made a sound like thrown stones.

Las negras lápidas surgían de la nieve como las uñas destrozadas de un cadáver gigantesco.

The sea is softer than your delicate hands, and yet it can alter the shape of hard stones.

Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers)

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

They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

Ben lungi dall'essere fluida, la modernità è l'epoca in cui le parole sono pietre, e in cui si attua l'incubo del verba manent .