Pebbles Quotes

• He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up...knees from buckling...hands from letting go of the blanket.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Up
  • Words
  • Story

• The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Truth
  • Monument
  • Peculiar

• Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Care

• On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Bed
  • Rocks
  • Spread

• The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

  

  William Stafford
  • Sea
  • Ocean
  • Shapes

• Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Single
  • Water
  • Honesty

• The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

  

  Robert Wise
  • Because
  • Favorite
  • Standpoint