Stones Quotes
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In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!
Eleanor Farjeon -
... without it love, without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold as stones, they seemed to become, when love was done; inhuman, indifferent, self-absorbed, numb.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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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 -
If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with applause but with stones.
Georgy Zhukov -
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 -
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 -
Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
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
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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 -
In the end, it is not the stones that matter, but the people who dwell within them.
Elizabeth Chadwick -
A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.
Dan Snow -
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
George Bernard Shaw -
Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius
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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 -
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
George Eliot -
I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."
Sandra Bullock -
Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
Vivienne Westwood -
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 -
Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
William Butler Yeats
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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 -
Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.
David Clement-Davies -
Build your house with the stones they hurled at you.
Erri De Luca -
There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.
Kate Wilhelm