Quotes About Pebbles

#1. Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

Marilyn French

#2. It would feel good to work at the Benjamin S. Ross Foundation for Not Eating Fruity Pebbles. But I know there isn't actually anything to rally against for him.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#3. This girl's out of her mind, about two pebbles short of a cave-in.

David Estes

#4. Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

Ayn Rand

#5. So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.

Kristen Heitzmann

#6. The waves may break upon the mountain, yet still they come, wave upon wave, and in the end only pebbles remain where once the mountain stood. And soon even the pebbles are swept away, to be ground beneath the sea for all eternity.

George R R Martin

#7. 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

#8. My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

Beatrice Wood

#9. Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. Bricks on your back are easier to carry than pebbles on your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. Aagragaah. It mean lit'rally der time when you see dem little pebbles and you jus' know dere's gonna be a great big landslide on toppa you and it already too late to run. Dat moment, dat's aagragaah.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Count the steps
and keep the number.
Pick the white pebbles
and the funny strange leaves.
Mark the curves
and cliffs around
for you may need
to come home again.

Tenzin Tsundue

#13. Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. They might just as well have been throwing pebbles into an empty cave.

Haruki Murakami

#15. I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.

Don Kardong

#16. I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

Stevie Smith

#17. A lucky person is one who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes.

Julia Stuart

#18. Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

John Piper

#19. Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

Lydia M. Child

#20. When casting pebbles into water, look at the ripples being formed thereby. Otherwise this activity will be an empty amusement.

K. Prutkov

#21. Electing love has selected some of the worst to be made the best. Pebbles of the brook grace turns into jewels for the crown-royal.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#22. Public "facts" are not like pebbles on the beach, lying in the sun and waiting to be seen. They must instead be picked, polished, shaped and packaged. Finally ready for display they the bear the marks of their shapers.

Peter Conrad

#23. I wake up breathing dirt. I cough and spit out the pebbles in my mouth, but when I inhale again, wet clots of clay fill my lungs.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#24. It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

Ben Harper

#25. The drunk answers every assault with smirking equanimity,' observed Haut, pouring his cup full again. 'All reasoned words thud like pebbles in the sand. Made immune, I imbibe the nectar of the gods.

Steven Erikson

#26. Listen to the night wind in the trees, Listen to the summer grass singing; Listen to the time that's tripping by, And the dawn dew falling. Listen to the moon as it climbs the sky, Listen to the pebbles humming; Listen to the mist in the trembling leaves, And the silence calling.

Ruskin Bond

#27. You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#28. Each time, Jane's heart banged, her skin chilled, and she clamped down on the distracting ache in her gut with a bowl of something naughty, like Cocoa Pebbles.

Shannon Hale

#29. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

Barack Obama

#30. All things resist destruction, according to their capacity. Rocks, pebbles, diamonds. Unity is instinctive to being.

Jan Siegel

#31. For some reason, I kept seeing it - it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina - a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

Vladimir Nabokov

#32. The story of mankind is the nomadic search for many, many truths along harsh roads bordered with flesh and bones and the apparitions of truths long since eaten by birds; it is looking for truths to fill a grumbling stomach, and spitting them out like pebbles when they have lost their flavor.

Breyten Breytenbach

#33. As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

John Milton

#34. Use the pebbles of failure to build yourself a bridge to success.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#35. My father always said that to push a rock an inch in a lifetime was the same as throwing a hundred pebbles into the sea every day. Big change comes slowly, but it will come

Lucinda Riley

#36. Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

Malcolm Cowley

#37. We can not be swallowed up like those little pebbles. We aren't pebbles. We won't just quietly sink to the bottom. We can run, we can fight, and we can work. We are not helpless unless we let ourselves be.

Sook Nyul Choi

#38. The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.

John Updike

#39. Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. Like a long wave, like a roll of heavy waters, he went over me, his devastating presence - dragging me open, laying bare the pebbles on the shore of my soul.

Virginia Woolf

#41. A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

Robert M. Hensel

#42. Faith turns mountains into pebbles. Fear turns pebbles into mountains.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#43. A thoroughly honest man is a rare jewel in the shallow stream of meaningless pebbles.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#44. There"s nothing left between us at all, is there?" she asked.
For a long moment he said nothing, and the pebbles made a clicking noise in his fingers.
Then, as if it gave him no pleasure at all, he replied.
"Whose fault is that?

Caragh M. O'Brien

#45. A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble.

Rhod Gilbert

#46. I drop kindness pebbles in still water everyday, and I watch the effect they have on other people's lives.
My favorite kindness pebbles are compliments.
Drop a compliment and watch the ripple affect that it has in your life.

JohnA Passaro

#47. God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. 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

#49. The instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot.

Robert Macfarlane

#50. (Scientists haven't tested this, but I've come to find that a Gatorade, a bowl of Fruity Pebbles, and an Excedrin will cure any hangover.) "Hung

Amanda Hocking

#51. Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#52. We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget - but the nuggets are the reward.

Robert A. Heinlein

#53. Beautiful girls in fairy stories are as common as pebbles on the beach. Magnolia-skinned milkmaids rub shoulders with starry-eyed princesses and, in fact, counting two eyes in each bright-eyed damsel would result in a whole galaxy of twinkling stars.

Eloisa James

#54. Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

Plutarch

#55. If, for instance, I determine the weight of each stone in a bed of pebbles and get an average weight of five ounces, this tells me very little about the real nature of the pebbles.

C. G. Jung

#56. The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

R. G. LeTourneau

#57. He really just wanted to blurt out, 'My Grandma's dead', but he knew that when it came to it, the words would stick like pebbles in his throat.

Helen Laycock

#58. Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

Fritz Leiber

#59. Every bird you downed bore pebbles in its gizzard from a land the maps ignored.

Julian Barnes

#60. The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain, he wasn't too old to climb trees. You could tell he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who?

Nicole Krauss

#61. The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

Sylvia Plath

#62. Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles which shone like newly-coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.

Jacob Grimm

#63. I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. I love my purple couch, and I love dancing. I used to have the best stuffed animals, but Samson [her dog] ate them.

Alicia Silverstone

#64. The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed ...

William Paterson

#65. I got his ashes, she said, and I took them out to sea and I scattered his ashes and they didn't even look like ashes and the urn was weighted with green and blue pebbles ...

Charles Bukowski

#66. I took my Power in my Hand
And went against the World
'Twas not so much as David
had
But I
was twice as bold
I aimed by Pebble
but Myself Was all the one that fell
Was it Goliath
was too large
Or was myself
too small?

Emily Dickinson

#67. First we get the rocks out, Alice. Then we get the pebbles out. Then we get the sand out, and the writer's voice rises. No harm done.

Mary Norris

#68. Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.

Bob Hope

#69. Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

Bryce Courtenay

#70. They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo.

Karl Pilkington

#71. That is all the money in the world at my disposition." She dropped the stilted words into the court like pebbles into a calm pool, wrapping her strange dignity around her like a cloak.

Cyril Hare

#72. Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

Josef Albers

#73. The Nineteenth Century And After
Though the great song return no more
There's keen delight in what we have:
The rattle of pebbles on the shore
Under the receding wave.

W.B.Yeats

#74. ...nothing in the world is solid or real, because nothing is permanent, and all things---including trees and animals and pebbles and mountains and rivers and me and you---are just flowing through for the time being.

Ruth Ozeki

#75. 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

#76. But Lake Pepin might be best known to most of the world as the place where, more than a hundred and thirty years ago, a little kid picked up too many pebbles.

Wendy McClure

#77. Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Thomas Browne

#78. Tears fill her eyes, making the hazel colour sparkle like pebbles at the bottom of a clear stream when the sun shines on them.

Shelly Pratt

#79. A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

Rumi

#80. Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#81. several old movies where the boy tossed pebbles at the girl's window. So I planned to use that approach. But

Michael Wolf

#82. The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon - as well as all of the short stories that writers studied for the inner trick of them. But there was no trickery: only the plain words put there as if they had always been there - like pebbles cooled in a river.

Naomi Wood

#83. When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake,
I disturbed its surface with countless circles.
But when I reached the depths,
I became very still.

Khalil Gibran

#84. Phrases are pebbles that the writer tosses into the reader's soul.
The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#85. We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#86. You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.

Seth

#87. To wait for a year to gain a pearl, is better than collecting pebbles everyday.

Yasser Kashef

#88. His hands, shedding actual tears. The silky cold dirt and sharp pebbles of the road

Janet Fitch

#89. There was a small knothole in one of the boards, and Coraline spent an afternoon dropping pebbles and acorns through the hole and waiting, and counting, until she heard the plop as they hit the water.

Neil Gaiman

#90. Stevie Kosgrov recently enjoyed a bowl of Fruity Pebbles (with milk that had hit its expiration date, oh, maybe a month ago).

James Patterson

#91. We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#92. The touched heart madly stirs,
your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles -
every gesture is a proclamation,
every sound is speech ...

Sappho

#93. Fill your mouth with pebbles, and howl at the sea, if you cannot do anything else.

Francis Marion Crawford

#94. I want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

Tim Cook

#95. From RIVER
My body is filled with sand. The heavy grains flow from my eyes and seek somewhere to fall.
Speak to me friends. Tell me I am free to go now, for I need to sit alone in the sun on the river bank, juggling pebbles.

Jay Woodman

#96. You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Joseph Joubert

#97. The ordinary build houses when they have bricks; the extraordinary build mansions when they have pebbles.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#98. Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.

John Townsend Trowbridge

#99. As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

Jean Pigozzi

#100. No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.

Edgar Allan Poe