Best stones & memories Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.”

Men World Sometimes Feelings Fall Memories Poor Boys Stones Senses Realms Burned Refusal Paralyzed Poor Boy

Book:The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again. Unless ... Summer's ardent rustling is like a festival outside my window.”

Soul Today Turns Memories Summer Stones Window My Soul Festivals Kill Me Ardent

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.”

Thinking Knows Wells Looks Children Hard Memories Stones Abuse Painful Do You Know Tape Recorders Chisels Painful Things

Author:Anne Heche

“If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?”

Ifs Men Heart Lying Memories Cold Stones Mark Warm Graves Thee Monument Marble Warm Heart

Author:John Vance Cheney

“The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.”

“Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness.”

May Mean Self Fall Christ Memories Sin Humility Weakness Stones Perfection Constant Height Distrust Clinging Stepping Stones Augustine

Author:James Stalker

“I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone's and my first film.”

Firsts Film Memories Stones Stardust Sharon

Author:Brent Spiner

“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.”

Years Humans Lying Memories Stones Increase Instruments Features Marvelous Our Memories Incorporating

Author:Primo Levi

“Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.”

Memories Stones Distance Acid Recollection Erode Time And Distance

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!”

Ifs May States Memories Cities Hair Stones Blind Prophet Falsehood Worn Oblivion Maids Swerve Upbraid Characterless

Book:Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

“Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess, including this gem-stone, is yours. I need you. I can't do this alone. Forget your memories. Look into your heart. And if you can find somewhere there, some lingering spark of trust that owes naught to reason, I beg you to speak the word written here.”

Ifs Knows Needs Looks Heart I Can Reason Remember Speak Memories Forget Written Stones Including Sparks Swear Trust Me Need You Gems I Need You Lingering

Author:Jacqueline Carey

“The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again. . . But how. The hot summer rustles Like a carnival outside my window; I have long had this premonition Of a bright day and a deserted house.”

Needs Long Stills Soul Today Turns House Memories Teach Summer Stones Window Hot Prepared Manage Breasts Slaughter Deserted Premonition Carnivals Hot Summer Bright Days Nevermind

Author:Anna Akhmatova

“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS”

Source: The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865

“I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.”

Firsts Memories Stones Casts Ridiculous One Time Pants Worn Vague Parachutes

Book:Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files

Source: Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files

“I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.”

Stills Earth Mother Fall Memories Gone Cutting Mets Ocean Stones Died Lips Guides This Life Streams Cliffs Richness Chairman Mother Died

Author:Arthur Golden

“No, the last thing she cared about was whether people were staring at the boy and girl kissing by the river, as London, it's cities and towers and churches and bridges and streets, circled all about them like the memory of a dream. And if the Thames that ran beside them, sure and silver in the afternoon light, recalled a night long ago when the moon shone as brightly as a shilling on this same boy and girl, or if the stones of Blackfriars knew the tread of their feet and thought to themselves: At last, the wheel comes to a full circle, they kept their silence.”

“The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.”

Light Memories Air Wall Quiet Spring Illusion Shadow Stones Breaths March Afternoon Fountain April Springtime Stirring Gowns Whiteness Rims

Book:Antonio Machado

Source: Antonio Machado

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”

Needs Should Age Names Stars Memories Son Fame Stones Weak Dear Bones Witness Labour Honour Pointing Pyramids Heirs Relics

Author:John Milton

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