Stone Quotes

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

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.

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

Leave no stone unturned.

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'