Quotation Explorer - 'Rocks'

When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow," said Buddha. - Deepak Chopra
If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain. - David W. Earle
I listen to the silenceand yearn to be more me,swimming in the sea of myself,learning eternally -finding out where the rocks areand smoothing them into sand. - Jay Woodman
A song rises up from the belly of my pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories. - Brenda Sutton Rose
Those are not obstacles, those are just small rocks. Kick them to the side and keep it moving. - Andrea L'Artiste
One should live as if the very rocks are glad you're here. - Marty Rubin
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett
Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks. - Gary Snyder
Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls - Munia Khan
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
Could dump two Chinee down in one of our maria and they would get rich selling rocks to each other while raising twelve kids. Then a Hindu would sell retail stuff he got from them wholesale--below cost at a fat profit. We got along. - Robert A. Heinlein
it's difficult to root for America when the villains of the story live in a ditch and are armed with jagged rocks. At some point in recent years they looked up from their international heroism to realize they'd alienated the entire world. - Yahtzee Croshaw
Love Rocks The De La Cruz's World - P.T. Macias
It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom. - Shannon L. Alder
He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle. - Nemo Nox
Even though this generation still believes in the miracle working power of God, they must no longer wait for God to bring water from the rocks, but rather construct dams, water systems, subdue the power of the ocean thereby give glory to God almighty - Sunday Adelaja
People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry! - C. JoyBell C.
High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
to live and leave indelible footprints, think of the rocks - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Hunter S. Thompson
To go through hurt, you have to stumble on the rocks in order to walk on solid ground. - Alyssa Tillmon
You could bounce rocks off her pride. - Terry Pratchett
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature. - Caspar David Friedrich
The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and chaos that were tangled in my mind made that an impossibility. - Chelsie Shakespeare
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.
Nothing in life is stronger than perseverance; time only promotes it, failure is afraid of it, negative people hide from it, and disease is affected by it. Even rocks give way to perseverance: because if water perseveres its impacts on the surface of a rock long enough, the rock starts to wither. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that are equal to ours. Rocks have souls, trees have souls. Trees are 'who,' not 'what. - Tomson Highway
I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the darknessof the cry. I wantwords as roughas virgin rocks. - Verb. - Pablo Neruda
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars. - Henry Ward Beecher
When my anxiety is really bad, the fast beating of my heart makes my body feel like it rocks back and forth. - Tina J. Richardson
You can't fight hatred with hatred and expect anyone to listen to you. You can only try to lessen it with humor, wit, truth and commonsense. If that doesn't work run like hell, while they throw rocks at you. - Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - "What is the meaning of the void?" The answer was perfect silence, so I knew. - Jack Kerouac
An Abyss is a deep and terrible chasm. What’s a chasm? A deep gash in the rocks. - Diane Samuels
Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers. - A.D. Posey
I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right. - Alan Lee
Even though this generation still believes in the miracle working power of God, they must no longer wait for God to bring water from the rocks, but rather construct dams, develop water systems, subdue the power of the ocean and thereby give glory to God almighty. - Sunday Adelaja
Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors - nothin'. Nothing to do but throw rocks at tin cans and we got to bring our own tin cans.
What is carved on rocks were away in time. What is told from mouth to mouth will live forever. - Vietnamese saying
Anger swirled in him, a tempest readying her strike. And like a helpless vessel caught in her fury, he felt himself dashed against the rocks without mercy. - V.S. Carnes
People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It's all fucking crap. We're all human beings, we're all mammals, we're all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a pain in the fucking arse. - Shane MacGowan
Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more. - Charles G.D. Roberts
Love is like gold, you may strike a vein with less effort, or may have to go through tons of rocks to find it - Habyarimana Bangambiki
God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail. - Shannon L. Alder
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better. - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Hands move rocks; faith moves mountains. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Great things take time; that is why seeds persevere through rocks and dirt to bloom. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking. - Terry Pratchett
They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life - Veronica Rossi
So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours] - Taylor Swift
I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks. - Shandy L. Kurth
Swift waters parted by the jagged rocks are joined at river's end. / 瀬をはやみ 岩にせかるる 滝川の われても末に あはむとぞ思ふ - Emperor Sutoku
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. - Norman Maclean
When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back. - Rebecca McKinsey
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