#stone

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture. ↗

— Margaret O'Brien

#always #ancient #ancient times #antiques #authentic

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#door #painting #picture #stepping-stone #art

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#error #idea #make #might #new

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#came #compassion #deep #exalted #high

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives. ↗

— Pericles

#earth #everywhere #given #heroic #into

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#often #stone

A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#ahead #already #assertion #been #creative

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#beliefs #curious #example #far #for example

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#humanness #love #our #work

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

— Terry Southern

#beatles #because #cooper #covers #doing