Quotes About Living Stones

#1. Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

Edwin Arnold

#2. I build only living stones
men.

Francois Rabelais

#3. The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus Christ as the Cornerstone.

Brother Yun

#4. Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.

Pope Francis

#5. I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

Jerry Hall

#6. He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never missed a meal or had a gun stuck to their heads.

Ben Fountain

#7. The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in.

Donald Barnhouse

#8. Create space in your mind for the harsh memories too. Don't ever cower from a teacher. Learn and live higher because you know how to use those dark memories as stepping-stones to think your way to a higher form of living.

Toni Sorenson

#9. Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

Terence McKenna

#10. It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.

Major Taylor

#11. The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.

Jose Saramago

#12. And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

Gayle King

#14. The happiest people are the ones who can build a firm foundation of awesomeness out of the stones people have thrown at them.

Tanya Masse

#15. To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

Jean-Luc Godard

#16. Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts ...

Robert Fulghum

#17. What is a mirror but water that refuses to budge?

Conchitina Cruz

#18. The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.

Anna Akhmatova

#19. My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.

Steven Price

#20. Sitting at our back doorsteps, all we need to live a good life lies about us. Sun, wind, people, buildings, stones, sea, birds and plants surround us. Cooperation with all these things brings harmony, opposition to them brings disaster and chaos.

Bill Mollison

#21. Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

Jason Wu

#22. It's the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we rewrite their lives.

Hilary Mantel

#23. People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Sachin Tendulkar

#24. Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

Dan Wells

#25. We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

Helen Hayes

#26. I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

Bob Woodward