Welcome to Stone Quotes, your source of timeless wisdom etched in stone. Throughout history, stones have been revered for their durability, strength, and permanence. From ancient civilizations to modern architectural marvels, stones have not only served as building materials but also as mediums for profound thoughts and reflections.
Inscribed upon these enduring surfaces are words that transcend time, encapsulating the essence of human experience, emotion, and philosophy. Whether chiseled into the walls of ancient monuments or carefully engraved on memorial stones, these quotes serve as reminders of our shared humanity and the enduring power of language.
On this page, we invite you to explore a collection of stone quotes that resonate with the depths of human thought and emotion. These quotes can inspire, comfort, and provoke introspection. Feel free to copy them, place them on images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to create your own personalized expressions of wisdom and inspiration. Let the timeless words etched in stone guide you on your journey through life. Now, without further ado, let’s delve into the profound insights awaiting you below.
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. Richard Lovelace
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one’s own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing. Seamus Heaney
You’ve got to turn over every stone; you’ve got to look for every advantage. You need to make sure you’re doing everything you possibly can, not just on the field but off it, to give your team an advantage – from having a sleep expert coming to talk to your team to having an independent analysis of your team done. Jill Ellis
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Chuck Palahniuk
The poets’ scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. Edmund Spenser
Labor is the fabled magician’s wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. James Weldon Johnson
I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long. Roz Savage
I’m going to die one day. I know it’s coming for me, too. I’ll be a mountain, I’ll be a stone on the beach. I’ll be nourishment. Mary Oliver
I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don’t look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn’t appeal to me. Kevin Costner
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. Robert Frost
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges
Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It’s more like a heap of stones – a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That’s how I see it. Maeve Binchy
Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts. Octavio Paz
If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl. Aurora
Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Matthew Green
Leave no stone unturned. Euripides
Show me a man who wouldn’t give it all up for Emma Stone, and I’ll show you a liar. Ryan Gosling
I was a rolling stone. Wherever I lay my hat was my home. Cordarrelle Patterson
What do you think Jesus would twitter, ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone’ or ‘Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.’ Chris Cornell
It wasn’t stone. It wasn’t welded steel. It wasn’t traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn’t define it in the early Fifties when I was starting out. Ruth Asawa
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Henry Ward Beecher
Under every stone lurks a politician. Aristophanes
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. James Harrington
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
It’s a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work. Frank Borman
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered. Roger von Oech
Place me behind prison walls – walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never. Karl G. Maeser
I know what Stone Island means to a lot of people in England and Europe. James Jebbia
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England. Thomas Malory
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. Johnny Cash
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. Oscar Wilde
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
My novel ‘Wolf Brother’ is set in northern Scandinavia during the late Stone Age, so I was aware from the start of Norse influences. I used some Norse names, and the soul-eater Thiazzi is based on the Norse storm giant, Thiassi. Michelle Paver
‘Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age’ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. Christopher Hitchens
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. Lucretius
We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don’t think that’s what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind. Tara Westover
Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone. Kevin Hart
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
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. Jose Rizal
I bike ride and swim but I don’t exercise ‘cos I like it. I do it because I’ve got a thyroid problem that can balloon my weight up to 20 stone if I stand still for five minutes. Shaun Ryder
Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn’t mean I’m naughty. Britney Spears
Census data is used to determine more than $675 billion in federal funding; it is a demographic Rosetta Stone that is referenced in the drawing of congressional districts, each states number of Electoral College votes and the application of civil rights laws, including the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act. Alex Wagner
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
Leadership and punching above your weight doesn’t necessarily always have to mean gunboat diplomacy and bombing other countries into the stone age. It can actually mean leading by example, and helping other countries. Clive Lewis
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere – a neglected stone. T. B. Joshua
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
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
Stone’s Rules exist because sometimes the truth is too painful, and the lies will land you in prison. Roger Stone
In ‘Casino,’ there was this scene where Bob De Niro tape-records Sharon Stone’s phone call. Then he asks her about where she’s going, and he catches her in a lie. It was a great scene, especially for Bob’s work, but we found that, in light of the whole film, it wasn’t needed. Thelma Schoonmaker
At the end of the day, it’s not where you get drafted. It’s not going to set you in stone with how good you’re going to be in your NFL career. Obviously, it’s being surrounded by the right people, the right coaches, how you present yourself, how you work hard. Josh Allen
Every time I’d read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomical observance. For example, some of the circles are oriented so that at the winter solstice, the sun will strike a standing stone. Diana Gabaldon
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud
The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone. Robert Plant
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
I wept not, so to stone within I grew. Dante Alighieri
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. Lucretius
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. Friedrich Nietzsche
Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone. Jesus Christ
Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‘Dust and Ashes Act,’ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title. John Muir
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish. Oliver Herford
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick. Muhammad Ali
To tell you the truth, I believe everything – tigers, trees, stones – are sentient in one way or another. You’d never catch me idly kicking a stone, for example. Mary Oliver
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me. George Washington Carver
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. Primo Levi
Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I can never look at anything I do subjectively – whether it’s a Stone Sour record or a Slipknot record, I can never really have my own opinion of it, ‘cos in my opinion it’s all crap. Jim Root
Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success. Naveen Jain
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. Adrienne Clarkson
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. William Hazlitt
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like ‘Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.’ David Viscott
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely. Mary Leakey
I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship. Lemmy
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. Ramakrishna
It is the parent’s job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children’s self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone. Henry Winkler
The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple. Charles Taze Russell
I’ve always seen modeling as a stepping stone. Tyra Banks
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp’s nest. Pope Paul VI
Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment. Arthur C. Nielsen
I love Rome for their calzones and New York City for the variety of quality eateries, but I absolutely fell in love with Miami for the stone crabs at Joe’s just off Ocean Drive – the best I’ve ever had, and the Cajun food. The steaks out there are colossal – it’s like having a shark and a cow on your plate. Paul Hollywood
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water. Amy Tan
Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open. Goran Persson
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone. Lenny Bruce
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age. Richard Armitage
A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out. Saul Bellow
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 Riis
I want to be host of ‘SNL.’ I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler – he is so funny – and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. David Mazouz
The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own. Thomas Campbell
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. Reed Hastings
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories. Andy Goldsworthy
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. Tony Jaa
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. Ansel Adams
I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin’ stone. Muddy Waters
Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous moral explosions, but against the strong walls of an impregnable fortress strongly built up, stone by stone, beginning at that distant day when the foundations were first laid. Maria Montessori
My own valuation moment: When I started ‘Antiques Roadshow,’ John Benjamin looked at my engagement ring, which is Victorian. I sat there as a visitor would and he dated it, talked me through the stone, which is an opal, and which mine it would have been from. Fiona Bruce
‘Sam Stone’ is a song about futility. John Prine