Pebbles Quotes - Page 8

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

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Crow, Needs

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Spring, Ascent, Merit

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.291

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• I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

  Anne Tyler

  Thinking, Shoes, Luck

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• Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished--it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.

  Jane Porter

  Hands, Long, Grace

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.104

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• Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

  Peter J. Daniels

  Poetry, Literature, Opaque

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• The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding, like waves from a pebble in the lake, have their immortality in the acts of future generations.

  Raymond Cattell

  Children, Lakes, Forever

  Raymond Bernard Cattell (1972). “A new morality from science: beyondism”, Pergamon

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• Be a rock, not a pebble.

  David Arquette

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

  Robert Ringer

  Jewels, Order, People

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• What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do....We can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

  Dorothy Day

  Heart, Oasis, Cells

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• A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Feet, Clothes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.427, Harvard University Press

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• Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spring, Flower, Eye

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• You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief. ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Grief, Rocks, Over You

  Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Lovely in Her Bones”, p.136, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Air, Blue, Voice

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.8, Random House

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• I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

  Sophie Jordan

  Dark, Water, Oblivion

  Sophie Jordan (2011). “Firelight”, p.123, Oxford University Press - Children

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• The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.

  Nhat Hanh

  Home, Practice, Water

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1999). “Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966”, p.69, Penguin

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• 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

  Change, Lakes, People

  President Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.

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• At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Eggs, Bird, Development

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• 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

  Lakes, Circles, Depth

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• You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Heart, Dust, Cobwebs

  FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Aug 04, 2013

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• Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels.

  Leslie Ludy

  Jewels, Priceless, Surrender

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• Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

  Darin Strauss

  Regret, Crazy, Want

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.178, Random House

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• If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Beach, Play, World

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• 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

  Men, Perfect, Soul

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

  Robert M. Hensel

  Moving, Men, Together

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• 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

  Fashion, Flower, Being Different

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