Stone

Famous quotes containing the word stone:

    ““That rough tooth of the sea,” Kineo, great source of arrows and of spears to the ancients, when weapons of stone were used.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It is a power stronger than will.... Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.”
    —Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870)

    “And every stone shall cry,
    In praises of the child
    By whose descent among us
    The worlds are reconciled.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)