Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old rock quotes, rock sayings, and rock proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.Thomas Jefferson
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The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.Lee Iacocca
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Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.Sigmund Freud
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. Yugoslav Proverb
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.Mark Twain
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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.J.K. Rowling
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. George Herbert
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The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks. English Proverb
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Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.George Eliot
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A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.Dalai Lama
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All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle! Clare Boothe Luce
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Don't look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain't any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock! Mehmet Murat ildan
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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.Rumi
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Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.Ruth Westheimer
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.Alfred Tennyson
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Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sink to rest.Marcus Aurelius
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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.Friedrich Nietzsche
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Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves.Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.Nora Roberts
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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.Jean-Paul Sartre
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Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.Jodi Picoult
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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.Mary Mcleod Bethune
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. Francesco Petrarch
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Vladimir Nabokov
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Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck. John Dryden
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Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard.Suzanne Woods Fisher
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Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!William Booth
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.Mahatma Gandhi
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Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!Mehmet Murat ildan