Famous quotes containing the word stone:
“The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.”
—Elizabeth I (15331603)
“It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much more enduring than the fame which it is designed to perpetuate,a stone to a bone? Here lies,MHere lies;Mwhy do they not sometimes write, There rises? Is it a monument to the body only that is intended?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Some may know what they seek in school and church,
And why they seek it there; for what I search
I must go measuring stone walls, perch on perch....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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