Rocks Quotes - Page 38

• Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

  Pete Townshend

  Inspirational Music, Doe, Might

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• I didn’t fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I’d fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I’d vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.

  Megan Hart

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Sound

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• My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.

  Shannon Hale

  People, Forever, Lasts

  Shannon Hale (2012). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The earth doesn't belong to anyone. It is the land upon which all of us are to live for many years, ploughing, reaping and destroying. You are always a guest on this earth and have the austerity of a guest. Austerity is far deeper than owning only a few things. The very word austerity has been spoilt by the monks, by the sannyasis, by the hermits. Sitting on that high hill alone in the solitude of many things, many rocks and little animals and ants, that word has no meaning.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Animal, Years

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• The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mistake, Blood, Rock And Roll

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.67, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?” Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the nunneries are nice this time of year” … “Is this true, Kami? Are you going out on a date?” Dad asked tragically. “Wearing that? Wouldn’t you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Daughter, Dad, Nice

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.143, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Children, Flower

  Hermann Hesse (2007). “Siddhartha”, Fine Communications

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• I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

  Patti Smith

  Book, Rock N Roll, Salvation

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• I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

  Alice Hoffman

  Rain, Thinking, Myrtle

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.

  Apolo Ohno

  Positive, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

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• What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Men, Kind, Miles

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• Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded. "Mithras was born from rock," Annabeth said, hoping she was right. "He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch." The screaming and wailing told her she had guessed correctly. "The big mother knows all!" a ghost cried. "That is our most closely guarded secret!" Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Secret, Torches

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• I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? ...They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax. Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.

  Carson McCullers

  Falling In Love, Men, Clouds

  Carson McCullers (2012). “The Ballad of the Sad Café”, p.133, Penguin UK

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• The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

  Chad Kroeger

  Important, Band, Rock N Roll

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• I'll call if I break a leg or get eaten by a bear." "Play like a rock." "Now?" "No, if a bear starts eating you." I thought for a moment before replying. "Do they have screaming, sobbing rocks, 'cause that's probably what I'll be doing if a bear is gnawing my arm off." "It would be difficult to just lay there and be eaten alive, huh?" "Ya think?

  Darynda Jones

  Thinking, Break A Leg, Play

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• I want to sympathize, I do, but the love triangle is just too delicious. The determined rock star and the possessive billionaire. Rawr.

  Sylvia Day

  Stars, Triangles, Want

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.437, Penguin

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• I took a closer look. Jesus had piercing blue eyes, dark hair that hung in a flawless mess, his body was emaciated and taut, his hands and feet dripped with blood, and nothing but a gauzy loincloth hid what looked like a nice package underneath. “Sexy,” I said. “He looks like a rock star.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Sexy, Jesus, Stars

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.18, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now behind some ornamental pillar, so as to put off as long as possible the shock of recognition, so as to be secure for one more moment to rock her petals in her basin. We wake her. We torture her. She dreads us, she despises us, yet she comes cringing to our sides because for al our cruelty there is always some name, some face which sheds a radiance, which lights up her pavements and makes it possible for her to replenish her dreams.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Light, Names

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• For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

  James A. Baldwin

  Change, Children, Acceptance

  "The Fire Next Time". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1963.

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• I can see her clearly, standing on the rock beside Peg Gratton, unflinching before Eaton and the rest of the race committee. I can't remember when I've been that brave, and it shames me. The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her; She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of the island that i'm not. It's like when the mare goddess looked into my eye; I felt that there was a part of myself that I didn't know.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Islands, Mirrors

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• I'm already waiting when Puck gets to the top of the cliffs. I'm not the only one; about two dozen race tourists have made perches out of rocks, watching Corr and me as closely as they dare. Puck glares at them all, searing enough that some of them flinch in surprise. I'm not certain what to expect from her after last night. I don't know how to address her. I don't know what she expects from me or what I expect from me. What I get is a wordless hello and a November cake in my hand.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Night, Two, Race

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• A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

  Billy Corgan

  Band, World, Rock N Roll

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• When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&B—first left on the Dark Zone side—and disappears, I melt down in a fit of the giggles. I toss a rock at the spot where he vanished. It bounces off the brick and clatters to the cobblestone. I'm feeling twenty shades of Harry Potter's train station, especially when he pokes his head out of the wall and says impatiently, "Come on, lass. This is hardly my favorite place to be.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Christian, Wall, Dark

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• In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them.

  Nicolas Steno

  Science, Animal, Matter

  The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid,

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• Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

  James Dwight Dana

  Ignorance, Science, Ideas

  James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.17

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