Stone

"Under every stone lurks a politician."

"With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day and wish 't were done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern."

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

"There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall."

"Stony seaboard, far and foreign, Stony hills poured over space, Stony outcrop of the Burren, Stones in every fertile place, Little fields with boulders dotted, Grey-stone shoulders saffron-spotted, Stone-walled cabins thatched with reeds, Where a Stone Age people breeds The last of Europe's stone age race."

"Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages."

"What I saw in Barcelona – Gaudí – was the work of such strength, such faith, of an extraordinary technical capacity, manifested during a whole life of genius; of a man who carved the stones before his eyes in well thought out pattern. Gaudí is the ‘builder’ of the turn of the century, a man adept with stone, iron and brick. His glory is seen today in his country. Gaudí was a great artist; only those who move the sensitive hearts of gentle people remain. But they are mistreated in the course of their lives, misunderstood or accused of sin toward the mode of the day. Architecture’s significance is shown when there dominates evidence of lofty intentions that triumph over all the problems in the line of fire (structure, economy, technique, utility). Thanks to interior preparation, architecture is the fruit of character – just that, a manifestation of character."

"The stone that the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone."

"Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth."

"All available stones... possessed sacred, eternal qualities. ...[A]ll living things perish ...the imposing rocks and cliffs stood eternally. ...[S]tone was symbolic of the eternal realm. ...[S]tone materials were devoted exclusively to religious monuments and sacred funerary paraphernalia. ...intended to survive for eternity."

"How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone?"

"The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew."

"Should I have left any stone unturned."

"I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed."

"Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own."

"There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor ever shall be."

"Oh! que no suis-je de pierre comme toi!"

"Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?"

"[Kicking a large stone] I refute it thus."

"With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!"

"Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage."

"Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, Otherwise kill me."

"With chiseled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows."

"In one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread with the other."

"You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity—for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?"

"I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert."

"Sagrada Familia...is the greatest piece of creative architecture in the last twenty-five years. It is spirit symbolised in stone!"

"Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue."

"Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart."

"A rolling stone gathers no moss."