Rocks Quotes

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. (Plutarch)
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. View quote
William Congreve
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. View quote
John Updike
Pray to God, but row away from the rocks. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Remember the mind is your best muscle...BIG ARMS can move rocks, but BIG WORDS can move mountains... Ride the brain train for success. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we are not entirely alone in this vast cold cosmos. But I hope that our Mars probes will discover nothing. It would be good news if we find Mars to be completely sterile. Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit. View quote
Nick Bostrom
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
Talk of mysteries! - Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we? View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains. View quote
Vladimir Mayakovsky
I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able. View quote
Maxfield Parrish
Object in/ and space – the first impulse may be to give the object – a position – to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with). Next – to change the position of the object. – Rauschenberg's early sculptures – A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden – The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden).. View quote
Jasper Johns
Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. View quote
Neil Armstrong
Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent data (for who needs proof of anything so obvious). And few intellectual activities can be more salutary than attempts to find out whether these rocks of ages might crumble at the slightest tap of an informational hammer. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home. View quote
Karen Blixen
Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it - they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there. (E. M. Forster)
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there? View quote
William Saroyan
I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks. View quote
Jeff Buckley
What am I drinking? NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. View quote
Clarice Lispector