Top 1200 Stones Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

Constant dropping wears away stones

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.

And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

One who can move mountains start with the little stones.

There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.

We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.

Cross the creek on the stepping stones of your failures.

A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the mason replied, "I am making stones." He asked a stone carver what he was doing. "I am carving a gargoyle." And so it went, each person said in detail what they were doing. Finally he came to an old woman who was sweeping the ground. She said. "I am helping build a cathedral." ...Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture.

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

The early firings contained many stones.

People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones

I tend to be a jam-band fan, and I love the Rolling Stones.

We're not idols onstage. We're not the Rolling Stones.

Are there no stones in heaven But what serves for thunder?

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a county turnpike toad. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew about the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

I am a fan of Mick Jagger and the Stones.

The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both."

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

I build only living stones--men.

Build your house with the stones they hurled at you

The next world war will be fought with stones.

Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.

through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.

Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been.

Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

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

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

Failures are the stepping stones to success.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

We want to evolve; like the Stones.

Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

We could be as rich as the Rolling Stones if we sold as many records.

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

Never Throw Stones At Your Mother

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Without stones there is no arch.

I want to live with a monk... and the Rolling Stones.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes.