Pebbles Quotations

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

Fred has a pressing need for life insurance to ensure that Wilma and Pebbles could maintain their standard of living if he were no longer able to provide for them.

My body is a pebble to them, they tend it as water tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing them gently.'

I caught a pebble in the moonlight.

Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay.

Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.

Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.

They do it in Thai restaurants in London. You ask for a drink, and it comes in a glass with loads of seaweed and pebbles in it like a scene from Finding Nemo.

I want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.

It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

I took my Power in my Hand -- And went against the World -- 'Twas not so much as David -- had -- But I -- was twice as bold -- I aimed by Pebble -- but Myself Was all the one that fell -- Was it Goliath -- was too large -- Or was myself -- too small?

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

A good intention clothes itself with power.

You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting on all who come into contact with the ripple.

There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.