Tone Quotes - Page 7

The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

Castles are Forrests of stones.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons and daughters" [Genesis 5:22], than if it were inscribed on my tombstone that I governed the councils or commanded the arms of the whole continent of America.

As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

You can't really dust for vomit.

Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.