Best stones & walks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”

Trying Has Beens Sometimes Whole Fall Sides Walks Path Danger Walking Stones Edges Whole Life Mainstream Abyss Jumping Chasms Narrow Path

Book:Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

Source: Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

“There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.”

Way Mean Long Faces Song Walks Five Hair Clothes Stones Presses Rolling Conferences Conceit Unfolding Rolling Stones Sinister Press Conferences

Author:Pete Hamill

“There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.”

World Feelings Walks Pleasure Tree Materials Stones Woods Touched Shells Clay Copper

Author:Jessica Stockholder

“The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.”

Way Humans Eye Walks Views Company Particular Scene Stones Mark Sticks Absence Nostalgia Familiar Solitary Human Experience Saddest Sticks And Stones

Book:Max

Source: Max

“I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there its a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. Im a keen walker, and I love Suffolks big skies.”

Two Bigs Running Walks Sky Dog Stones Empty Miles Beach Cottages Walkers Sturdy Farmland

Author:Diana Quick

“My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.”

People Thinking I Can Body Moving Lying Father Walks Stones Hills Pauses Tombs

Author:Patti Davis

“The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.”

People Fall Walks Revolution Stones Symbols Excellent Paving

Author:Victor Hugo

“At noon, you walk across a river. It is dry, with not this much water: it is just stones and pebbles. But it rains cats and dogs in the mountains, and towards afternoon, the water descends wildly and she ravages all in its path, the madwoman. That is how death comes. Without our expecting it, and we cannot do a thing against it, brothers.”

Water Walks Path Fate Dog Brother Mountain Rain Rivers Stones Cat Dry Afternoon Expecting Noon Pebbles Cat And Dog

Author:Jacques Roumain

“For adversities must of necessity come. They are part of the pattern of life's pilgrimage for every individual; and who can escape them? But I say unto thee, that for those who walk in Me, and for those who are encircled by the intercessory prayers of My children, I shall make of the suffering, yea, shall make of the trials a stepping stone to future blessing.”

Children Suffering Individual Prayer Walks Blessing Stones Adversity Patterns Trials Thee My Children Pilgrimage Stepping Stones Intercessory Prayer

Book:Come Away My Beloved

Source: Come Away My Beloved

“We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few thousand years we are going back to the Stone Age! There are many scenarios [with] the robot technologies: Humans no longer need to walk; machines can produce products and food and everything. You might not be able to recognize what's false and what is real.”

Needs Years Humans Real Might Age Able Walks Technology Produce Products Thousand Stones Machines Atmosphere Thousand Years Robots Scenarios Turning Points Stone Age

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those goddamn crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.”

“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.”

Kind Walks New York Stones Hips Heels High Heels Cool Things Sexiest Sharon Swaying

Author:Queen Latifah

“Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone's throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale.”

Different Country Social Walks Animal Cities One Thing Dog Stones Neighbor Hills Solitary Acres

Author:Susan Orlean

“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

“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.”

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”

Ifs World Love Hands Walks Teach Path Clear Son Stones Your Son

Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)

“Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.”

Source: Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990

“Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As the biggest stones melt, turtles and mice and fish and even men can be seen frozen inside. And Kansas is not surprised. Henry York had seen things in Kansas, things he didn't think belonged in this world. Things that didn't. Kansas hadn't flinched.”

Thinking Men World Bigs Fall House Walks Behinds This World Stones Clouds Fishes Impressed Mice Soar Frozen Wheat Cattle Hail Kansas Turtles

Book:Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards

Source: Dandelion Fire: Book 2 of the 100 Cupboards

“The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.”

Walks Journey Wind Walking Stones Cat Wander Hiking Highways Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I left the jutra to chop wood. I began my walk through the snow, five kilometers to the tree line. That's when I saw it. A tiny silver of gold appeared between shades of gray on the horizon. I stared at the amber band of sunlight, smiling. The sun had returned. I closed my eyes. I felt Andrius moving close. "I'll see you," he said. "Yes, I will see you," I whispered "I will." I reached into my pocket and squeezed the stone.”

Said Eye Moving Left Felt Lines Walks Sun Five Saws Tree Band Stones Gold Woods Tiny Snow Pockets Silver Horizon Gray Shade Sunlight Amber Shades Of Gray

Author:Ruta Sepetys

“I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.”

Ends Today Walks Stones Decided Down The Road

Book:Chasing Windmills

Source: Chasing Windmills

“You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.”

Doe Ends Light Eye Water Walks Tree Flower Stones Silent Winter Sand Print Passages Tigers Veins Marshes

Book:Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

“... He went under the stars, and the tender light of the moon, when it hung like an eyelash and the tree trunks shone like bones. He walked through wind and weather, and beneath sun-bleached skies. It seemed to Harold that he had been waiting all his life to walk. He no longer knew how far he had come, but only that he was going forward. The pale Cotswold stone became the red brick of Warwickshire, and the land flattened into middle England. Harold reached his hand to his mouth to brush away a fly, and felt a beard growing in thick tufts. Queenie would live. He knew it.”

Hands Light Stars Felt Waiting Walks Sun Growing Tree Sky Land Middle Wind Moon Mouths Red Stones England Bones Weather Thick Pale Hung Brushes Bricks Beard Trunks Eyelashes Tree Trunks

Author:Rachel Joyce

“People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.”

People Hands Light Past Moving Water Church Dark Walks Sky Stones Saint Clouds Evening Bridges Gray Towers Dusk Gazing Granite Gray Skies

Author:Franz Kafka

“When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a county turnpike toad. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew about the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.”

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