Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone, a castle.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Malone: Why do you want to join the force? George Stone: To protect the property and citizenry of... Malone: Ah, don't waste my time with that bullshit. Where you from, Stone? George Stone: I'm from the south-side. Malone: Stone. George Stone. That's...
If a man believes in a stone, that stone will serve him well.
Ryan Stone: [last lines, upon landing on earth] Ryan Stone: Thank you. Ryan Stone: [stumbles, reconsiders] Ryan Stone: No.
When a stone hits glass, the glass breaks. When glass hits a stone, the glass breaks.
If a stone falls on an egg, it is bad for the egg; if an egg falls onto a stone, it is still bad for the egg.
A stone thrown at the right time is better than a stone thrown at the wrong time.
If someone hits you with a stone, hit him with bread; your bread will return to you and his stone will return to him.
Failure is a stepping stone for Success.....and Success may become a stepping stone for Excess!!
Failures are stepping stone of success, but it becomes stepping stone when we accept it with whole heart...
It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big
I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.
The sythe ran into a stone.
He was gargoyle. Tonight, his mate would learn exactly what that meant.
The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because they show something that is no longer stone or tree but sacred, the ganz andere or 'wholly other.
When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones!
ONE WORD One word — one stone in a cold river. One more stone— I'll need many stones if I'm going to get over.
Mine, said the stone, mine is the hour. I crush the scissors, such is my power. Stronger than wishes, my power, alone. Mine, said the paper, mine are the words that smother the stone with imagined birds, reams of them, flown from the mind of the shap...
I will claim her, and I will protect her, and any who become her enemy? I will destroy.
For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget.
