#stone

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#another #hot #proof #recent #springs

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. ↗

— King Hussein I

#cannot #down #enlightened #existence #firm

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ↗

— Dean Inge

#could #gladstone #himself #most #mr

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#become #dust #glass #stone #thee

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. ↗

— Zane Grey

#higher #may #men #rise #selves

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#care #fact #going #i #i think

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

— Edmund Spenser

#death #else #genius #monuments #outlive

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#just #like #love #made #new

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. ↗

— Dave Barry

#been #fan #gigantic #i #rolling

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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