#stones

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region. ↗

— Paracelsus

#bread #country #different #earth #everything

My family stood right in front of me, talking and smiling. I felt like I was viewing one of those cheesy ad shots for camera companies. The ones I looked at and thought, fake, because no one's family ever looked that happy. Yet, the perfect family moment bloomed right before my eyes, and I wasn't a part of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Morgan

#elizabeth-morgan #stepping-stones #sweet-romance #family

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#could #expression #faces #happy #i

I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#cause #drag #dress #enough #first

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#added #arithmetic #awed #crystals #even

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#been #determined #experiences #i #many

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#creating #crystals #guide #i #me

Tombstones don't talk back. ↗

— Leland Chapman

#talk #tombstones

The early firings contained many stones. ↗