Granite And Marble Quotes

#1. In the countryside he heard horns and drums and followed the sound to a temple of granite and marble set in a compound that included shrines and incense stalls, people squatting against the walls, beggars, touts, flower-sellers, those who watch over your shoes for a couple of weightless coins.

Don DeLillo

#2. The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Thomas Wolfe

#3. German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

Bernard Berenson

#4. Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

Kinky Friedman

#5. Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?

Edgar Lee Masters

#6. As though she thought I was to blame for what happened, Scarlett thought indignantly.

Margaret Mitchell

#7. My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

James Arthur

#8. The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

Alfred Armand Montapert

#9. Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.

Peter F. Hamilton

#10. if you tell me you want to spend every single day on the calendar this year falling in love with me, then I'm going to kiss you. And I promise it'll be an eleven.

Colleen Hoover

#11. A pretty sight; it would have surprised me, if my capacity for surprise wasn't flattened.

Jacqueline Carey

#12. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.
Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored

Earl Nightingale

#13. Hip-hop didn't invent anything ... hip-hop re-invented everything.

Grandmaster Caz