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A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.
Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
On my 50th birthday the Rolling Stones played at my party at Grosvenor House. That's not bad for a kid from Tooting.
Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.
I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."
I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.
He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.
No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge.
The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in.
In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!
The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.
Every good band in the world was a cover band first. The Beatles were and the Stones were. Everybody was a cover band.
The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.
What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.
The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.
Sharon Stone has the kind of face I'd leave my wife for. Since I'm not married, I'll have to leave someone else's wife.
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.
I'm in a state of learning, and I don't have any set-in-stone ideas about what shows or even what eras I want to pursue.
No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism.
That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.
It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.
When you see U2 or the Rolling Stones, after years of knowing each other, they don't have to look at each other to connect.
When I was 13, when I was 14, when I was in England, yeah all I wanted to do was go and see The Who, go and see The Stones.
Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.
I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.
Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.
Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
I think of the Avengers as The Beatles, and the Guardians are the Rolling Stones. That is really how I feel about the groups.
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.
The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.
I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.
Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.