Top 100 Stones With Sayings

#1. In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleetThey barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

Eleanor Farjeon

Stones With Sayings #342080
#2. I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.

Jeff Beck

Stones With Sayings #561528
#3. I grew thinner and more ragged. I slept in rain or sun, on soft grass, moist earth, or sharp stones with an intensity of indifference that only grief can promote.

Patrick Rothfuss

Stones With Sayings #727111
#4. They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us ...

Hernando Cortes

Stones With Sayings #1084713
#5. The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of an old moral theologian. Whenever the guide spat between his shoes, the horse shook his head in disapproval.

Wolfgang Koeppen

Stones With Sayings #1276852
#6. I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.

Cat Stevens

Stones With Sayings #1643210
#7. 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

Stones With Sayings #1759032
#8. Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors ... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids ... mixed together with powdered stones to give color ... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal.

James Elkins

Stones With Sayings #19995
#9. It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

Menander

Stones With Sayings #21044
#10. You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live.

Catherynne M Valente

Stones With Sayings #24124
#11. I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

Mick Taylor

Stones With Sayings #32357
#12. I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

Bill Wyman

Stones With Sayings #38321
#13. The current business model for language education is the student pays - in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world's population doesn't have $500.

Luis Von Ahn

Stones With Sayings #46666
#14. I shall never 'go and marry' anyone," observed Meg, walking on with great dignity while the others followed, laughing, whispering, skipping stones, and 'behaving like children', as Meg said to herself,

Louisa May Alcott

Stones With Sayings #49263
#15. Someone once said that World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons and the next war with sticks and stones.

Robert F. Kennedy

Stones With Sayings #56986
#16. It could only be the employment of carriage whips, tongs, iron pokers, handsaws, stones, paperweights, or whatever might be handy to break the black body, the black family, the black community, the black nation. The bodies were pulverized into stock and marked with insurance. And

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Stones With Sayings #58770
#17. In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops." in the poem "Beyond the Beacon" from Terra Affirmative.

Jay Woodman

Stones With Sayings #62529
#18. I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe ...

John Geddes

Stones With Sayings #62756
#19. Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

Ray Bradbury

Stones With Sayings #65280
#20. When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

Rachel Field

Stones With Sayings #81675
#21. Nature is also God's way of communicating with us. Jesus himself used nature to teach us about God. He used birds and flowers, the weather, precious stones ... Looking at nature, we can come to understand God himself.

Adelina St. Clair

Stones With Sayings #86546
#22. Dust webbed the window and the showtrays. Dust darkened the toiling fingers with their vulture nails. Dust slept on dull coils of bronze and silver, lozenges of cinnabar, on rubies, leprous and winedark stones.

James Joyce

Stones With Sayings #87083
#23. One day they'll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.

Turcois Ominek

Stones With Sayings #100706
#24. The true God is to be venerated in obscure and fearful Places, with Horror in their Approaches, and thus did our Ancestors worship the Daemon in the form of great Stones.

Peter Ackroyd

Stones With Sayings #102404
#25. Along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.

David Abram

Stones With Sayings #123252
#26. In those days," continued Ishvar, "it seemed to me that that was all one could expect in life. A harsh road strewn with sharp stones and, if you were lucky, a little grain."
"And later?"
"Later I discovered there were different types of roads. And a different way of walking on each.

Rohinton Mistry

Stones With Sayings #134473
#27. The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea.

Meir Kahane

Stones With Sayings #140556
#28. Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.

Thomas S. Monson

Stones With Sayings #142014
#29. When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

Jonathan Lethem

Stones With Sayings #144193
#30. Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.

Kate Atkinson

Stones With Sayings #148289
#31. A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

Magha

Stones With Sayings #149266
#32. When I'm working with materials it's not just the leaf or the stone, it's the processes that are behind them that are important. That's what I'm trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.

Andy Goldsworthy

Stones With Sayings #155627
#33. Now whither does THIS trail lead?" Kaa's voice was gentler. "Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open.

Rudyard Kipling

Stones With Sayings #159539
#34. She knew the way of things. She knew if
you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole
world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.
Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hard
beneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want and
wine. . . .

Patrick Rothfuss

Stones With Sayings #160826
#35. The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

Christina Aguilera

Stones With Sayings #162266
#36. They [Marvel] don't tell you. You never know with them. They have their world, but they don't like to spoil anything, so nobody knows until it's set in stone. You don't know. I actually don't know what they have in store for Wilson Fisk, or my Wilson Fisk, I should say.

Vincent D'Onofrio

Stones With Sayings #165007
#37. The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.

Andy Peebles

Stones With Sayings #166931
#38. You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in an earlier and less credulous age, the local citizens would have gathered at the first sight of you and driven you off with stones -

Robert Harris

Stones With Sayings #176028
#39. My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,
A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

Stones With Sayings #180281
#40. The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Winston Churchill

Stones With Sayings #180836
#41. I don't need a trumpet for you to know I'm coming. I simply arrive.

Z.E. Frey

Stones With Sayings #197887
#42. If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.

Martin Luther

Stones With Sayings #200968
#43. With their ship, the Horse, They ply the sea of grass, They stalk the walking mountains, With stones they make their beds.

Greg Keyes

Stones With Sayings #206408
#44. Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

Dan Wells

Stones With Sayings #211411
#45. Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun.

Merry Clayton

Stones With Sayings #217357
#46. Is she okay?" Harlen's throat was clogged with stones of fear. "She has to be okay.

Erin Kellison

Stones With Sayings #227046
#47. Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?
I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;
I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns ...

William Butler Yeats

Stones With Sayings #232209
#48. From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Margot Asquith

Stones With Sayings #238874
#49. With each word that passes my lips, I feel less heavy. It is as if I am giving him sentences made of stones, and the more I relay, the more of the burden he is carrying.

Jodi Picoult

Stones With Sayings #248120
#50. The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Erica Jong

Stones With Sayings #251378
#51. And then without any signal or obvious sign of tansformation, the beach was suddenly alight with fiery stones.

Meg Rosoff

Stones With Sayings #252229
#52. Jealousy is a horrible thing. The pain of it is almost as consuming as heartbreak, and I would know because I was feeling both at the same time. I felt like someone had ripped open my chest with their bare hands, removed my heart and lungs, and replaced them with a bunch of rocks and stones.

Samantha Young

Stones With Sayings #256128
#53. Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Stones With Sayings #285867
#54. My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

Dani Shapiro

Stones With Sayings #297339
#55. I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

Bobby Keys

Stones With Sayings #298766
#56. When a man's ways please God, the stones of the street shall be at peace with him.

Walter Cradock

Stones With Sayings #300574
#57. That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

Joe Elliott

Stones With Sayings #306175
#58. For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played with them on 43rd Street.

Lin Brehmer

Stones With Sayings #307233
#59. Such compliments
they were thrilling but almost impossible to absorb in this quantity, at this pace. It was like she was being pelted with magnificent hail, and she wished she could save the individual stones to examine later, but they'd exist with such potency only now, in this moment.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Stones With Sayings #313443
#60. I always knew Fitz would wind up writing; although I figured he'd be a poet or a storyteller. He would play with language the way other children played with stones and twigs, building structures for the rest of us to decorate with our imagination.

Jodi Picoult

Stones With Sayings #318167
#61. I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones ...

Stephen Stills

Stones With Sayings #320302
#62. I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.

Golda Meir

Stones With Sayings #320559
#63. Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.

Gregory David Roberts

Stones With Sayings #323007
#64. Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

Paul Engle

Stones With Sayings #323402
#65. We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.

Ron Wood

Stones With Sayings #330546
#66. Those silent times, those times when I was one with the mountains, earth and the black stones that held fire - those times were the strength and joy of my life.

Sherryl Jordan

Stones With Sayings #335411
#67. People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,
with dim, small lights.
Clouds which move across gray skies
past churches
with towers darkened in the dusk.
One who leans against granite railing
gazing into the evening waters,
His hands resting on old stones.

Franz Kafka

Stones With Sayings #354606
#68. 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

Stones With Sayings #355913
#69. 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

Stones With Sayings #361292
#70. Gaunt men with sunken eyes squatted amidst sand and stones, shitting out their lives in stinking streams of brown and red.

George R R Martin

Stones With Sayings #370787
#71. The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

Lars Ulrich

Stones With Sayings #378717
#72. I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

Imelda May

Stones With Sayings #383450
#73. I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

Peter Noone

Stones With Sayings #385807
#74. Shall I ask again?" wondered Xaro. "No, I know that smile. It is a cruel queen who dices with men's hearts. Humble merchants like myself are no more than stones beneath your jeweled sandals." A single tear ran slowly down his pale white cheek.

George R R Martin

Stones With Sayings #389066
#75. Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away

Jessica Sorensen

Stones With Sayings #392853
#76. What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

George Eliot

Stones With Sayings #402007
#77. I sit at my desk
each night with no place to go,
opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo,
the whole U.S.,
its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,
through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

Anne Sexton

Stones With Sayings #406721
#78. Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.
[Lat., Accedit etiam mors, quae quasi saxum Tantalo semper impendit: tum superstitio, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Stones With Sayings #420355
#79. Mum says when wanting collides with getting, that's the moment of truth. I want to collide. I want to run right into Shadow and let the force spill our thoughts so we can pick each other up and pass each other back like piles of shiny stones.

Cath Crowley

Stones With Sayings #426787
#80. my life is a pond filled with stones - tossed and rippled by children at play

Tshombe Sekou

Stones With Sayings #429226
#81. I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

George Whitefield

Stones With Sayings #434795
#82. In June 1972, I went with friends to see the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Forum. After the concert, as we crossed through the parking lot, a guy in a brown Mercedes stopped in the middle of the street and got out. He came up to me and asked if I had ever modeled.

Rene Russo

Stones With Sayings #436144
#83. If this road, this series of stepping stones, leads nowhere, then so be it. I walk the road with friends, and so I have my home. - Drizzt Do'Urden

R.A. Salvatore

Stones With Sayings #436534
#84. My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone

Francesca Lia Block

Stones With Sayings #439469
#85. When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

Saadi

Stones With Sayings #446530
#86. I ran then, following the power, ran with joy and a wild, winging certainty, right into the hearth of everything I loved.
And there was no earth, no cold, no dust, nor stones nor water rushing past; but only this joy, this singing, awesome flight straight into the soul of God.
Into fire.

Sherryl Jordan

Stones With Sayings #447670
#87. Stavia saw herself as in a picture, from the outside, a darkly cloaked figure moving along a cobbled street, the stones sheened with a soft, early spring rain.

Sheri S. Tepper

Stones With Sayings #451230
#88. This woman was eighteen years old. With eyes as old as stones.

Herbjorg Wassmo

Stones With Sayings #452281
#89. At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will be turned into stone and my joints into flint in my grave, but my spirit will rise

Crazy Horse

Stones With Sayings #461104
#90. And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

Edwin Lutyens

Stones With Sayings #470274
#91. It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.

Bobby Keys

Stones With Sayings #474391
#92. Whoever had come up with the chant "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" had been an idiot.

Nevada Barr

Stones With Sayings #491346
#93. The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Henri Poincare

Stones With Sayings #494786
#94. ... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Stones With Sayings #511325
#95. Who, like Crozier, would rather have his kidney stones removed with a spoon than be forced to suffer sermons -

Dan Simmons

Stones With Sayings #525140
#96. Where I used to image you as a girl with a bag full of stones, ready to throw them at any foe who crossed her path, you have become the stone itself. You are steady and able.

Kiera Cass

Stones With Sayings #561173
#97. We sit down with a copy of Rolling Stone from the early eighties to argue about whether Face Dances by the Who (John's choice) or Emotional Rescue from the Stones (my choice) was the lamest sellout album for a super group.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Stones With Sayings #574727
#98. West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

Mary Kingsley

Stones With Sayings #576550
#99. With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.

Jonathan Alter

Stones With Sayings #600271
#100. That which draws us by its mystical force; what every created thing, even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the center of its being ... is the force of love. Christians call this "eternal blessedness." It is a necessity of man for growth and joy.

Gustav Mahler

Stones With Sayings #603684

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