Jade Stone

Famous quotes containing the words jade and/or stone:

    Do not pray for gold and jade and precious things; pray that your children and grandchildren may all be good.
    Chinese proverb.

    Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than the metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.
    —J.L. (John Langshaw)