96 Quotes About Stone

Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.

It is better to be a stepping stone than a stumbling block

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey of peace in old poems.

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

I might be fragile like a mirror. You might be the rock.Hit me all you want.But still in the end I’ll be the one shining.

Nineteen secrets, nineteen stones,nineteen branches, nineteen bones,untold wonders in a daybreathing deep under stone and clay.

Stone, steel, dominions pass,Faith too, no wonder;So leave alone the grassThat I am under.

...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone...