Stones Quotations

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals - Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want

If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to tell you every member. But I couldn't name a single member of Arctic Monkeys.

I would say that longtime fans of the Rolling Stones will be thrilled with these results, and new fans will understand why they're the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

It's pretty scripted on the road: very organised and compartmentalised, and that's the way it has to be with so many people involved in a Stones tour.

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl.

The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable.

As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. I'm a keen walker, and I love Suffolk's big skies.

Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

The body is the substance of the stone.

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not.

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.

Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world.

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

As a child, l was fascinated by gemstones in the way that small children are fascinated by dinosaurs or trains. Stones seem very physical and look like sweets. You can look at them microscopically and imagine things about them.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.

The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

It's good fun, making a solo album, because there's perhaps songs that wouldn't get used for the Stones or any other kind of outfit that I'm working with. It's just nice to be the boss.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.

You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.

I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!