Stones Quotes

• Never Throw Stones At Your Mother

  

  David Ross
  • Mother
  • Stones
  • Throw

• It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Year
  • Stones
  • Beatles

• Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • May
  • Words
  • Hurt

• You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Long
  • Ideas
  • Years

• Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Stage
  • Stones
  • Boston Garde

• I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

  

  John Kendrick Bangs
  • Road
  • Grit
  • Load

• Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Stones
  • Mick Jagger
  • Solo Career

• There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.

  

  Albert Meltzer
  • Aim
  • Stones
  • Sermons

• No one will ever win four Super Bowls in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Happens
  • Stones
  • Chisels

• 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.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Land
  • Kings
  • Ships

• To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not like the reproduction of living plants, and of animals which have senses. For all these we see reproducing their own species from their own seeds; and a stone does not do this at all. We never see stones reproduced from stones; ... because a stone seems to have no reproductive power at all.

  

  Albertus Magnus
  • Power
  • Stones
  • Reproduction

• One who can move mountains start with the little stones.

  

  Confucius
  • Move
  • Mountains
  • Stones

• I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

  

  Billy Joel
  • May
  • Like
  • Antique

• Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

  

  Bion of Borysthenes
  • Sport
  • Stones
  • Frogs

• 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
  • Thoughts
  • Break
  • Stones

• In far-off lands stand the great stones on which my thoughts rest. It was a foreigner who wrote the strange words on the hard board that is called my soul. Days and nights I lie and think about things that never happened: my thirsty soul was once given a drink.

  

  Edith Södergran
  • Soul
  • Days
  • Foreigner

• I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Music
  • Wish
  • Fan

• 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
  • Giving
  • Corporate
  • Infiltration

• Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Long
  • Heart
  • May

• 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
  • Innocent
  • Angel
  • Cages

• The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Journey
  • Walking
  • Wind

• Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Understanding
  • Highways
  • Avalanches

• Walls and stones may fall in the wind when it blows like a Thracian torrent, but a god stands forever

  

  Callimachus
  • God
  • Fall
  • Forever

• The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.

  

  Bob Weiss
  • Basketball
  • Prefer
  • Kidney

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