Stone Quotes

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.

And what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.

Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.

He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.

The very funny thing about “Like A Rolling Stone” is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?