Quotes About Beach Stones

#1. A purple African violet so lush and fleshy it looked edible ... his fingers as cool and smooth as beach stones.

Wally Lamb

#2. Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

Haruki Murakami

#3. I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that ... rock music became a huge economic force.

Mike Love

#4. Hearts are like stones on an ocean beach ... And people are like the tides that leave permanent marks on them.

Loretta Ellsworth

#5. When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

John Woolman

#6. A best friend is your voice when you can't find it.

Ellen Hopkins

#7. Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

Boris Sidis

#8. I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. I'm a keen walker, and I love Suffolk's big skies.

Diana Quick

#9. If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.

Nick Nolte

#10. There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Andy Goldsworthy

#11. We are all connected on the inside. Your ass is just the far end of your mouth.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.

Ludwig Von Mises

#13. Oblong stones sink
slow and sideways. Shaped
by the weight of waves,
dutifully vibrating nature's
lunar-bound graces,
they wash ashore only for
closed palms to forsake them.
The cheerful will
cherish them, place them
on windowsills, or on graves.

Kristen Henderson

#14. The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction.

Charles Dickens

#15. How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...

M. E. W. Sherwood

#16. Greatness has entered the ring! Thank you very much you may bow at will!

Randy Orton

#17. To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.

Anne Boleyn

#18. The hawk had filled the house with wildness as a bowl of lilies fills a house with scent.

Helen Macdonald

#19. I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.

Damien Hirst

#20. My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

Dani Shapiro

#21. And then without any signal or obvious sign of tansformation, the beach was suddenly alight with fiery stones.

Meg Rosoff

#22. And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.

Tomas Young

#23. If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

Steven Tyler