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Stones Quotes - Page 2

If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

Without stones there is no arch.

"Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, 1972.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

"An Asia of Tolerance and Humility That Learns from Each Other". Dinner Speech by Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, on the Occasion of the Nineteenth International Conference on "The Future of Asia", japan.kantei.go.jp. May 23, 2013.

Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.

"Tony Blair ‘let Nationalist genie out of the bottle’ in Scotland" by Paul Gilbride, www.express.co.uk. April 8, 2015.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

Song: Over, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1885, e-artnow