Stone Quotes

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.

A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

I don't like things set in stone.

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.