Stones Quotes
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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage: If I have freedom in my love, and in my Soul I am free, Angels alone, that soar above, enjoy such liberty.
Richard Lovelace -
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.
William Shakespeare
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.
Charles Ghigna -
Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!
Marcel Proust -
If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with applause but with stones.
Georgy Zhukov -
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.
Michael Azerrad
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A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.
Dan Snow -
Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.
Kate Pierson -
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius -
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
George Bernard Shaw -
In the end, it is not the stones that matter, but the people who dwell within them.
Elizabeth Chadwick -
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
George Eliot
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Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."
Sandra Bullock -
Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
William Butler Yeats -
Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.
Amira Hass -
Build your house with the stones they hurled at you.
Erri De Luca -
Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
Vivienne Westwood
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We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.
William Arthur Ward -
I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.
Catherine Ryan Hyde -
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.
Carmen Boullosa -
Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.
David Clement-Davies