Quotes About Rocks

I live just above a creek, and it's always very active. It almost sounds like the ocean. It's constant, and there's lots of big rocks in it, so it's got a great sound. It's one of my favorite things.

Asteroids are our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors.

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast/To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak

Out of the firelight everything was black and silver, black island, rocks and trees carved cleanly out of the sky and silver river with a flashing light rippling back and forth along the lip of the fall.

She remembers third grade at the Indian Island School, where she learned that the name Penobscot is from Panawahpskek, meaning "the place where the rocks spread out" at the head of the tribal river, right where they were. That Wabanaki means "people of the Dawnland," because the tribes live in the region where the first light of dawn touches the American continent.

She wishes them not luck or money; they will have both, as much as they want, or is necessary. Instead she wishes them fearlessness in all things: in love, yes, but also in work, in expectation, in the leap from the high rocks, in looking back, and in forgetting.

I saw you watching the moon you did note hesitate to love me with it I saw you honouring the wind-flowers caught in the rocks you loved me with them

I'm a bit farther ahead in the day," Simon said negatively. "But a Dry Sack on the rocks would go down nicely.

Hope is a duty. Hope is our reality. Shelley says so and he believes it so, but for me the light has gone out. The light inside and the light outside. I have no lantern and no lighthouse. I am at sea in waves too high and the rocks wreck me.

When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be interested in the earth if you live in a place like this. I started to read a lot of geology, much to the horror of my friends.

I'd never thought much about the moon before I got this job. But I love it here. I can spend hours just looking out at the stars and the rocks. It makes me feel very peaceful.

Centuries later, as the dragon planet spun through space, a comet passed by, close enough to shine like a fourth moon in Pyrrhia's sky. Close enough to change the tides and shake the continents. As earthquakes rumbled through the ground, long-buried rocks shifted that had been in place for thousands of years. Deep underground, in the darkness, copper wires snapped. And a dragon awoke …

HELLO!" the second dragon shouted down the chasm, making Blue jump. "HELLOOOOOOO, ANNOYING WINGLESS DRAAAAAAGON. ARE YOU DEAD AT THE BOTTOM OF THESE ROCKS? OR ALMOST DEAD? COULD YOU CROAK 'YEAH, I'M HERE, TOTALLY DEAD, CARRY ON' SO WE CAN ALL GO HOME AND SAY WE FOUND YOU?

The gold tracery in the rocks and floor went over the top in here, as if a giant dragon had stumbled around the room vomiting gold all over the place.

Would you like me to spell out 'DRAGONETS WUZ HERE' in giant rocks?

Love is the falcon's flight over your sands. Because for him, you are a green field, from which he always returns with game. He knows your rocks, your dunes, and your mountains, and you are generous to him.

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

It draws its name from rocks that are characteristic of the Permian geologic age, which ended with the "great extinction" that wiped out most living creatures about 250 million years ago.

The urge to throw myself over the edge is strong. To die so beautifully, so perfectly… To fly for a handful of seconds… Become part of the sea, dashed against the rocks until I'm nothing, then swept away to the Otherworld in the company of fish, mermaids, and all the other creatures of the deep…

FAR FROM THE WHARF, well across the bay and almost to the open sea, was a tangle of rocks so treacherous that no captain familiar with these waters would sail his ship there.

Fortunately the bad guys had the tactical intelligence of a waffle iron, so the hero was able to outsmart them by ducking behind some rocks, then putting his hat on a stick and holding it

Whatever happened to him? Silk asked. He went swimming in the Nedrane. I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well. They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.

He felt he would like one more look at the sea, which even now was licking at the rocks behind the house. He had no sentimental notions about the sea; he had no regard for its dangers or its beauties; to him it was a close acquaintance whose every virtue and failing, every smile and tantrum he had come to understand.

Idly, I wonder what sort of execution Cardan might order. Maybe he'd strap me to some rocks and let the sea do the work. Nicasia would like that. If he's not in the mood, though, there's always beheading, hanging, exsanguination, drawn and quartered, fed whole to a riding toad...