Best stones & steps Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination

“For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.”

“Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.”

Men Book Steps Honor Stones Dust Temples Climbing Stairs Stairways

Author:Joaquin Miller

“I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.”

Knows Way Feels Steps Stones Shoes Our Future Your Future Every Step

Book:Blade of Tyshalle

Source: Blade of Tyshalle

“Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.”

Long Moments Seems Past Spirit Voice Lines Steps Stones Instinct Dust Legends Grain Recalls Neglected Every Step

Book:At home and abroad

Source: At home and abroad

“Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath. What steps did the young Israelite take to overthrow the giant? He struck him in the middle of the forehead with a pebble from his sling. If we regard the Philistine as representing evil and all its powers: heresy, impurity, pride, we can consider the little stones from the sling capable of overthrowing the enemy as symbolizing the Aves of the Rosary.”

“Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside; The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; And when too short the modish shoes are worn, You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.”

Source: Poetry and prose of John Gay

“The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.”

Men Feels Firsts Steps Stones Burden Good Man First Steps

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When primeval man ﬁrst used ﬂint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments. From this step it would be a small one to break the ﬂints on purpose and not a very wide step to fashion them rudely.”

Men Would Be Used Purpose Steps Break Fashion Stones Wide Fragments Primeval

Book:The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ... Second Edition, Revised and Augmented, with Illustrations. Tenth Thousand

Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex ... Second Edition, Revised and Augmented, with Illustrations. Tenth Thousand

“Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone.”

Way Steps Creativity Stones Driving Wrong Way Chisels Dance Steps

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do the job for now. It should be regarded as a next step to make further improvement.”

Way Should Jobs Next Steps Standards Stones Definitions Improvement Best Way Next Steps

Author:Masaaki Imai

“Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.”

I Can Eye Lying Walks Vision Steps Seeing Journey Land Flower Walking Bed Stones Legs Wander Rough Take Me Thank God Hiking Patches Trekking Strolling Cotton Sauntering Bogs

Author:Beatrix Potter

“God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.”

Important Steps Path Walking Stones Important Things Climbs Roof Rope Stairs Bamboo

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else.”

“but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.”

Mind Ends Might Certain Fall Found Steps Records Dying Pride Stones Notion Dust Witness Dry Weed Manifest Vague Alienation Degradation

Author:Philip K. Dick

“A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.”

Source: Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan

“But there would be no confrontation the next day. And for Tommy Williams, there would be no school, either. Because the moment he walked through the gap in the stones to leave the circle, something quiet unexpected happened. Tommy, holding tightly on to his rock, took the step that divided the inside of the circle from the outside - and disappeared. The woods suddenly felt colder than usual. The darkness hung more heavily. The amber was gone - and now nothing would ever be the same.”

Moments Would Be School Next Felt Steps Darkness Gone Happened Rocks Quiet Stones Woods Circles Unexpected Gaps Divided Usual Hung Next Day Confrontation Amber

Author:Liz Kessler

“Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.”

Men Sound Steps Heard Tree Feet Mouths Stones Fingers Shoes Tongue Rings Suits Throat Clothings Nevertheless

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead. - A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.”

Children Ends Common Steps Watches Break Stones Sick Sticks Bounds Cracks Jumping Rope Mama All Alone Playgrounds Clapping

Book:Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

“Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.”

Ends Done Light Eye Night House Lost Stars Dark Cities Steps Morning Streets Sweet Wind Mouths Stones Empty Breaths Breathe Awakening Hills Dawn Gray Warmth Breeze Empty Streets Trill

Author:Cesare Pavese

“It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. He doesn't love me. He never loved me. It was all a lie. "The old Lena is dead." I say, and then push past him. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.”

Lasts Past Lying Turns Difficult Hurt Steps Pieces Growing Wall Stones Bigger Stronger Chests Limbs Coldness Heaviness

Book:Requiem

Source: Requiem

“Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.”

Lasts Turns Difficult Hurt Steps Stones Limbs Heaviness

Book:Requiem

Source: Requiem

“He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.”

Feels Steps Feet Stones Glad Sympathy Smallest Spray Moss Condolences

Author:Anna Katharine Green

“It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.”

Giving Character Water Steps Sea Cost Thousand Rain Garden Rivers Stones Monsters Labour Peculiar Horns Rail Ivy Spray Channeling Overflow Dripping Terrace Irrepressible

Author:Edith Wharton

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