Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?
A censure would put an indelible scar on the president's place in history,. . Monica Lewinsky is not Watergate. Let he who has no sin in this chamber cast the first stone.
Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.
Mary Magdalene beat her breast and sobbed, The beloved disciple turned to stone, But where the silent Mother stood, there No one glanced and no one would have dared.
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity.
One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
The only time we can fail is if we quit. Most perceived failures are only stepping stones being small problems encountered along the path to a goal. Obstacles are opportunities for growth, therefore, encourage and embrace them.
The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is not in the event itself but how you think about it and what you do after it. Every failure and setback can become part of your success or an excuse for quitting or failing. People who develop the discipline of positivity are both happier and more successful.
When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.
I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.
Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.
In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.
It was me, Dad, that hired Stone Cold back. Dad, it was me!
When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?
This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]
If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.