Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
Beatrix Potter

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo

The body is the substance of the stone.
George Ripley

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Hugh Latimer

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Lucretius

The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock.
Joshua Homme

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
Lucretius

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
Mary Leakey

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.
Andy Goldsworthy

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Horace

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
Andy Goldsworthy

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.
Paul Celan

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
Victor Hugo

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand Russell

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

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.
Thomas Campbell

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
Andy Goldsworthy