Stone Quotes
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!
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One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
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The issue is a stone in the show.
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Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.
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I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I've ever been to. I'm convinced this place is the epitome of American excess, of American greed. I'm talking about a place called Cold Stone Creamery. Whoa. If you have not been there, the basic gist of Cold Stone is that they take ice cream and then they just go ape sh*t with it.
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What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the enjoyment of power, do not discharge the duties of power; they are the men who, having the power to redress wrongs, refuse to listen to the petitioners that are sent to them; they are the men who, when they are asked for a loaf, give a stone.
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And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.
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What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
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The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.
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And now indeed this substance with its precious humility becomes, through its indestructibility, the most faithful bearer of man's message. As far back as one goes in time, the works of humanity from prehistoric times have reached us not through stone which crumbles and wears away, or through metal which oxidizes and becomes like powder, but through slabs of pottery, the writing on which is as clear today as it was under the stiletto of the scribe who traced it.
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Voting is the foundation stone for political action.
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Leave no stone unturned.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
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When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.
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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
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Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the stonewith imagined birds,reams of them, flownfrom the mind of the shaper.Mine, said the scissors,mine all the knivesgashing through paper'sethereal lives;nothing's so properas tattering wishes.As stone crushes scissors,as paper snuffs stoneand scissors cut paper,all end alone.So heap up your paperand scissor your wishesand uproot the stonefrom the top of the hill.They all end aloneas you will, you will.
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I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
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One word — one stone in a cold river. One more stone— I'll need many stones if I'm going to get over.
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What is silence, is it more solid than a stone?
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So I’m pampering myself to a homemade stone pumice session, to sand down my feet … because I’m worth it.
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The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity of those hard bodies, in the constitution of this earth, or for the permanency of the land on which we dwell, and when he finds that there are means wisely provided for the renovation of this necessary decaying part, as well as that of every other, he then, with pleasure, contemplates this manifestation of design, and thus connects the mineral system of this earth with that by which the heavenly bodies are made to move perpetually in their orbits.
