Best Granite Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.”

Giving Degrees Stones Tone Tolerate Marble Resonance Bronze Pudding Granite Metallic Limestone

Author:Bernard Berenson

“Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.”

World Long Moving Half Watches Alive Shadow Flying Golden Flight Ravens Normalcy Granite

Author:Dean Potter

“Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.”

Made Tombstone Granite

Author:John R. Erickson

“Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.”

Grows Views Clear Poet Reader Walking Mountain Limits Essentials Tea Collections Shelves Indispensable Moonlight Herbs Bedrock Granite Thermos

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.”

Humans Wells Children Persons Mother Father Substance Divided Grain Trinity Dissolution Granite Domesticity Mother Child Father Mother

Author:C. A. Bartol

“A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.”

Able House Strong Wind Built Rain Foundation Pouring Granite Strong Winds Strong Foundation Pouring Rain

Author:Haile Selassie

“But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.”

“We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.”

“The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.”

Ifs Shows Church Week Conversation Affection Enthusiasm Granite New Words Geologist

Book:Annals of the Former World

Source: Annals of the Former World

“A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.”

Kind Together Clear Higher Pure Dignity Affection Virtuous Bricks Accumulation Resolute Granite Plasters

Book:Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838

Source: Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838

“Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.”

People Want Trying States Whole Body Bigs Form Used Names United United States Happened Crime Like You Concerned Stones Thick Ashes Cover Ups Burial Granite Chisels Cremation

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“From millions of men . . . one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the wavering idea-world of the broad masses and take up the struggle for their sole correctness, until from the shifting waves of a fre thought-world there will arise a brazen cliff of solid unity in faith and will.”

Men World Ideas Form Force Steps Principles Millions Struggle Mass Unity Wave Arise One Man Broads Sole Shifting Cliffs Correctness Steps Forward Brazen Granite Wavering

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“I'm in New Mexico making a movie called "Granite Mountain." I'm playing the head of the organization called Statesman, which is the United States version of Kingsman. I'm like how Michael Caine was in the original.”

States United United States Mountain Organization Originals Versions Mexico Statesmen Granite New Mexico

Author:Jeff Bridges

“I received my Master's degree from the University of Utah while coaching at Granite High School. I obtained my doctorate from BYU while coaching. I pursued these degrees to prepare myself if coaching didn't work out.”

Ifs School Masters Degrees High School University Work Out Coaching Pursued Utah Granite Doctorates Byu

Author:LaVell Edwards

“Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.”

Knows Eye Literature Female Green Corners Monsters Admire Pounds Pregnancy Squares Pregnant Sculptors Jargon Granite

Author:Ezra Pound

“Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.”

Character Faces Actors Pieces Arms Shapes Findings Movie Filmmaking Chips Granite

Author:Jason Reitman

“I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.”

Dark Blue Green California Islands Coast Maine Palette Juan Granite Dark Blue

Author:Parker Stevenson

“I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?”

Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

“...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.”

Reason Home Fall Courses Water Rocks Behavior Complexes Holes Hardest Distinction Conditioning Liquid Crude Scarlet Drop Of Water Wholesale Granite

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.”

Source: No nature: new and selected poems

“To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished.”

World Believe Seems Lasts Born Streets Despite Certainty Deep Down Tranquil Hysteria Granite

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

“If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras. "Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever." "Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.”

Ifs Said Stills Seems Forever Tomorrow Kissing Horse Agree Mortals Merit Cheer Discussing Cheer Up Granite

Author:David Gemmell

“Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.”

Light Lying Sun Saws Silent Heavy Ice Desert Thick Purple Summit Glare Granite Mono

Book:Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.”

Source: English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)

“We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —”

Men Dream Eye Age Dies Names Hurt Mistake Blood Dying Drama Prove Surprise Harm Phrases Awake Cautious Jars Egyptian Granite

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

Source: The Works of Goethe

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