Stones Quotes

There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God's voice mingling among the crystal fires.

~ Ray Bradbury

Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many years, his bones will still be lying there, in place, content, patiently waiting, but his flesh will have gotten up and left him. Water is like flesh. Water will not stand still. It is always off to somewhere else; restless, talkative, and curious. Even water in a covered jar will disappear in time. Flesh is water. Stones are like bones. Satisfied. Patient. Dependable. Tell me, then, Alobar, in order to achieve immortality, should you emulate water or stone? Should you trust your flesh or your bones?

~ Tom Robbins

Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Clouds are just nature's stepping stones to the heavens.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is a mirror of our inner being. The entire universe is a manifestation of our own inner being. Man is the microcosm and the universe is the macrocosm. In our inner being, we are one with all.True relationships is to see ourselves in all beings and to see all beings in ourselves. The inner being is not only present in human beings, but it is also present in flowers, trees, animals, stones and the stars. The divine exists everywhere in nature. Once we realize this we will never feel alone. We find the communion of the heart everywhere.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Take the stones that failure throws at you and build legacies the world will always remember you for.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence, they take corrections.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I am beginning to believe that we know everything, that all history, including the history of each family, is part of us, such that, when we hear any secret revealed, a secret about a grandfather, or an uncle, or a secret about the battle of Dresden in 1945, our lives are made suddenly clearer to us, as the unnatural heaviness of unspoken truth is dispersed. For perhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and cannot weep until that history is sung.

~ Susan Griffin

Yes, if the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story.

~ Nico J. Genes

Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.

~ Keith Richards

Keith Richards on change—It's gotta go up and down. Otherwise, you won't know the difference. It would be just a bland, straight line, like lookin' at a heart machine. And when that straight line happens, baby, you're dead.

~ Jessica Pallington West

The great mountains of wars and conflicts in the world can only be removed by picking up tiny stones of hatred and anger bit by bit. We must all be involved!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

But it turned out life was more like the kind of song the Stones wrote: you didn't get any satisfaction, you took one hit to the body after another, if you were a woman you were a bitch who belonged under someone's thumb, and if you wanted mother's little helper from your dear doctor you better have the silver, take it or leave it, and don't come crying for sympathy, that was just for the devil.

~ Joe Hill

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Sense howEven the smooth stones acheWith stories of their ownIn the shuddering light of day.

~ Scott Hastie

In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops. in the poem Beyond the Beacon from Terra Affirmative.

~ Jay Woodman

Trust is like a glass vase, beautiful except there is no way of putting it back together when it breaks.

~ Willi Way

Our confidence is not in what we have, but He who freely gave us what we have. If God's will is in your little stones, they will surely bring down giant Goliaths... but you have to make the throw!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When you believe in yourself as a great asset God created for a reason, you will rename your major successes as mere stepping stones because there are greater things that eyes have not yet seen through you, and all are embedded in the value you have in your room; remember that value is you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You must stay focused, concentrating on the work at hand. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.

~ Windston Churchill

Gray.The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy rain drifting around resembled transparent molten steel, the pavement looked like it was about to burst into disconsolate tears, even the air itself was gray, so ultimate and ubiquitous that colour was everywhere around me.Gray...

~ Simona Panova

...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...

~ John Geddes

People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,with dim, small lights.Clouds which move across gray skiespast churcheswith towers darkened in the dusk.One who leans against granite railinggazing into the evening waters,His hands resting on old stones.

~ Franz Kafka

I think maybe bad things seem worse when people are alone. When they can turn that bad thought over and over in their head, polishing it like a stone, until it shines dark and black. Maybe the key to making things better is being with other people. Little by little, smiles and laughter and hugs can chip away at any dark stone, even if it’s as big as a boulder to start. Then finally, bit by bit, it shrinks until it’s no bigger than a pebble, something that even I could kick down the road.

~ Shannon Wiersbitzky

Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds...

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.

~ Keirsten White

We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for ghost and phantoms.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

...each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...

~ John Geddes

If an evil spirit had to hide from God, it would hide in a diamond. If an angel had to hide from the Devil, it would hide in rose quartz.

~ Suzy Kassem

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

~ Dale Carnegie

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

~ Henri Poincaré

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

~ William Blake

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

~ Keith Richards

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton