Quotes of: Stone-age Keyword

I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.

Kokoro

Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow.

Rise of the Morningstar

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

Requiem

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

Stone of Farewell

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

Spiritual Leadership

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

More Poems

We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.

The Memory Palace

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

Nightwood

Please stop,” I said politely—he was that big. One should always mind one’s manners around big things.

Necromancing the Stone

There is earth below your earth, a deep room where gas and oil, rock and stone, circulate like slow blood through a body.

The Lease

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I might be a vampire so I don't give a shit. I'll heal

Lord of the Vampires

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out. Miss Marple

A Murder Is Announced

I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers; I remember all you forget. I will die as many times as you make me over again.

Selected Poems

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.

The Sword in the Stone

I’ve learned through the years that it’s not where you live, it’s the people who surround you that make you feel at home.

Skipping Stones

What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

With the young writers now it’s F and C all day long, which he, personally, finds boring.

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Everybody’s got sad stories.” Devon’s voice was as ungiving as stone. “And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of them.

Once We Were