#stone

I was so busy with my studies that I didn't have a musical idol as a teenager. Later, around my 20s, I suddenly discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but I guess my musical idol has always been Strauss. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#around #beatles #been #busy #discovered

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

The body is the substance of the stone. ↗

— George Ripley

#stone #substance

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

— George Ripley

#ever #expense #god #hast #labour

When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer. ↗

— Doris Roberts

#give #go #i #never #say

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#brave #brightness #courage #fail #faith

Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.' ↗

— Nicholas M. Butler

#many #read #should #tombstones

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#be yourself #believe #cut #defines #friends

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#because #change #come #football #future

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#i #iii #iv #know #sticks