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

Kristen Heitzmann

#5. 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

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

Beatrice Wood

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Haruki Murakami

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Julia Stuart

#15. 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

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

K. Prutkov

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Jan Siegel

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Robert M. Hensel

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. (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

#44. 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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

#46. 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

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

Plutarch

#48. 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

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

R. G. LeTourneau

#50. 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

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

Julian Barnes

#52. 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

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

Sylvia Plath

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

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

Bryce Courtenay

#59. 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

#60. 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

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

Josef Albers

#62. 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

#63. ...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

#64. 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

#65. 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

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

Thomas Browne

#67. 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

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

Rumi

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Michael Wolf

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

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

Yasser Kashef

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

Janet Fitch

#76. 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

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

James Patterson

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

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

Sappho

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

Francis Marion Crawford

#81. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

John Townsend Trowbridge

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

Jean Pigozzi

#85. 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

#86. No footprints in the sand. Pebbles and bits of weed are strung in scalloped lines. Three outer islands bear low stone forts; a green lantern glows on the tip of a jetty. It feels appropriate somehow, to have reached the edge of the continent, to have only the hammered sea left in front of him.

Anthony Doerr

#87. Grace turns pennies into gold, pebbles into pearls, sickness into health, weakness into strength, and needs into abundance.

Anonymous

#88. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

William Stafford

#90. You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.

Charles Kingsley

#91. Like pebbles in a bag, the monks polish each other.

Unknown

#92. Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay.

Mark Oliver

#93. But I've always had a low voice, I can't yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child.

Elena Ferrante

#94. Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.
Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.

Joyce Cary

#95. I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

Jennifer McMahon

#96. The mole dug its way deep, deep down, under the foundations of the wall. No magical alarm sounded, though I did hit my head five times on a pebble.
Once each on five different pebbles. Not the same pebble five times. Just want to make that clear. Sometimes you human beings are so dense.

Jonathan Stroud

#97. Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments appeared vile. I had no more value for the favor of men than for pebbles.

David Brainerd

#98. I hate cows,' Jessa says, pulling Pebbles

Eliza Henry-Jones

#99. In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture.

Henry Moore

#100. 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