Famous quotes containing the words granite and/or state:
“Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, “I can do no other.””
—Heywood Broun (1888–1939)
“It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting the Scripture, ‘If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)