Stones

Famous quotes containing the word stones:

    “And no less firmly do I hold that we shall one day recognize in Freud’s life-work the cornerstone for the building of a new anthropology and therewith of a new structure, to which many stones are being brought up today, which shall be the future dwelling of a wiser and freer humanity.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    “Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Some spring the white man came, built him a house, and made a clearing here, letting in the sun, dried up a farm, piled up the old gray stones in fences, cut down the pines around his dwelling, planted orchard seeds brought from the old country, and persuaded the civil apple-tree to blossom next to the wild pine and the juniper, shedding its perfume in the wilderness. Their old stocks still remain.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)