Stone Quotes

Without stones there is no arch.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

I build only living stones–men.

Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

There’s no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.