Stone

Famous quotes containing the word stone:

    “Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “You sang far better than you knew; the songs
    That for your listeners’ hungry hearts sufficed
    Still live,—but more than this to you belongs:
    You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.”
    —James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)