Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old stone quotes, stone sayings, and stone proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Like stone, human flesh mingles dry earth with binding water: an unsettled union of wet and dry, cold an warm, fire and tears.Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
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Stone is primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A limit-breaching intimacy persistently unfolds.Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
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A meshwork of connection, the mountain entangles every struggling life and imbues even stone with vitality.Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
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Throughout the archaeological record, in all areas of the world, the most frequent evidence of past human activity that we have is stone tools.Brian Patrick Kooyman
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Stone, the primary building material taken from the crust of the Earth, has been used since the earliest times for convenience, endurance and visual impact.F G Dimes
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Much of the history of the world's civilizations is recorded in stone.F G Dimes
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Stone was considered to be so important that at one time all the quarries were in royal ownership.F G Dimes
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When man built, and indeed builds, for permanence and for impact, stone is the material chosen.F G Dimes
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The stone represented yang characteristics: hard, solid, unyielding, dry, hot, bright, strong, forceful, rough, and penetrating.Vincent T. Covello
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The majority of precious stones are destined, after being cut, to be devoted to purposes of jewelry. Max Bauer
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The less valuable stones are occasionally bored with holes and strung together as beads for personal ornaments.Max Bauer
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The setting of precious stones and the manner in which different kinds of stones are associated affords scope for the exercise of much taste and judgement.Max Bauer
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A single stone is sometimes set by itself in an article of jewelry.Max Bauer
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Gold and silver are the only metals ised as the material fot the setting of valuable stones.Max Bauer
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Most gem stones in jewelry must be cut to reveal their full brilliance.
Dorothy McKenney Schlegel
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In ancient times a gem stone was treasured for its surface coloration rather than it's brilliance.Dorothy McKenney Schlegel
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Rocks that are buried deeper. nearer the heat of the Earth's center, can melt to form a hot liquid, called magma.Devin Dennie
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The movement of the crust squeezes rocks and pushes up mountains.
Devin Dennie
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Minerals are the basic building blocks or rocks.Devin Dennie
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To identify a rock you have to look at all the minerals inside it and how they are combined.Devin Dennie
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Gemstones can be polished to make them shine using a rock tumbler.Devin Dennie
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Mining for rocks can pollute the air, soil and water.
Catherine Ipcizade
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People use rocks and stones to make things. People dig them from the ground.Catherine Ipcizade
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Rocks have their own smells. Some kids can tell by sniffing whether a rock came from the middle of the earth or from an ocean or from a mountain where wind and sun touched it every day for a million years.Byrd Baylor
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Some rocks that look brown are really other colors, but you only see them when you squint and when the sun is right.Byrd Baylor
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If your rock is going to be special it should look good by itself in the bathtub.Byrd Baylor
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Any rock looks good with a hundred other rocks around it on a hill.Byrd Baylor
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Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold.Franklin
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Some days a diamond, some days a stone.R.A. Wise
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.Francis Bacon