Famous quotes containing the words stone and/or inscriptions:
“They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in, they did not find the body.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 24:2,3.
““Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents. . . . The end of the world is evidently approaching.” Sound familiar? It is, in fact, the lament of a scribe in one of the earliest inscriptions to be unearthed in Mesopotamia, where Western civilization was born.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)