Stones Quotes - Page 5

• I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

  Henry Rollins

  Inspirational, Life, Friends

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.283, Villard

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• Constant dropping wears away stones

  Benjamin Franklin

  Achievement, Dropping, Constant

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.238

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• If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

  Lucretius

  Doe, Heavy, Lifts

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• The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.

  John Ruskin

  Wall, Long, Humanity

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.172

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• But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

  Kublai Khan

  Bridges, Support

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• The next world war will be fought with stones.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Next, World

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• In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised.

  Yukio Mishima

  Dark, Light, Anchors

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• Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age

  Illmaculate

  Weed, Rap, Smoking

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• ... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

  Plato

  Character, Men, Political

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

  Tadao Ando

  Religious, Church, Trying

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• A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

  Charles Darwin

  Heart, Science, Men

  Charles Darwin, R. C. Stauffer (1987). “Charles Darwin's Natural Selection: Being the Second Part of His Big Species Book Written from 1856 to 1858”, p.279, Cambridge University Press

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• Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

  Ansel Adams

  Space, Sunrise, Green

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  You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

  Johnny Cash

  Life, Bullying, Mistake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The children of our Lord walk gladly in his ways; they have confidence in him, and so when they fall, they rise again; and if, instead of stopping to grumble about the stone they have tripped over, they humble themselves at their fall, this helps them to advance with great strides in his love.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Children, Fall

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• The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

  Robert Smith

  Guitar, Fans, Rolling

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• Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

  Saint Patrick

  Wall, Lying, Compassion

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• The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.

  Joseph Hall

  Hurt, Godly, Men

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• One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

  A. L. Rowse

  Might, Architecture, Regard

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• A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Beautiful, Real, Apples

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• Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.

  Clare of Assisi

  Strength, Iron, Body

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  You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

  Mick Jagger

  Desire, Trying, Needs

  FaceBook post by Mick Jagger from Jun 15, 2012

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• In every failure is the seed of success...
  Our failures are stepping stones in the mechanics of creation, bringing us even closer to our goals. In reality, there is no such thing as failure. What we call failure is just a mechanism through which we can learn to do things right.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Goal, Creation

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• Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Sweat, Darkness

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• Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.

  Mary N. Cook

  Lakes, Years, Salt

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• The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing.

  Seungsahn

  Girl, Dancing, Water

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