Granite Quotes

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas Carlyle
Strong Weak Obstacle Became Block Pathway Which Granite
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. Gustave Flaubert
Nature Stupidity Nothing Something Attacks Unshakable Without Itself Breaking Against Granite Hard Resistant
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet. Mary Higgins Clark
Book Writing First Other Months Mental Mental Image Through Pushing Feet Up Train Mountain Hands Scratching Icy Bare Bare Feet Granite Four Image
Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake. Anthony Doerr
You Yourself Sometimes Long Enough Say Thousand Find Above Devastating Feet Glittering Look Up Mountain Hanging Wander Lake Place Granite Suddenly
I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine. Parker Stevenson
You Dark Find Only Maine Along Looked Juan California Islands Green Blue San Granite Coast Palette
New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say. P. J. O'Rourke
You Vote Dinner Mouth State Say Independents Data Potatoes Unreliable Mashed Potatoes New Call Because Understand New Hampshire Hampshire Going Middle Polling Republicans Registered Them Ask Granite Full Who They Say
At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock - a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you're really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples. Alex Honnold
You Half Shoes Top Ripples Feet Like Crux Stick Rock Smooth Dome Vertical Trusting Very Wall Hands Tiny Really Granite Your Slap Nearly Imagine Rubber
Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust. Antony Gormley
Old Single Earth Bits Ancient Lies Crust Most Piece Rock Surface Still Intact Covered Years Western Australia Granite Billion Largest
The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles. Don Kardong
Path Country State Ran Slick Hidden Van Rip Unrelenting Angular Through Toughest Boulder New Along Leaves Rocks Trail York New York New York State Fields Race Mud Roots Across Granite Ever
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. Ezra Pound
Me Corner Monster Eye Admire Beyond Know Around Female Square Green Precisely Going Jargon Pregnant Granite Apparently Why
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. Heywood Broun
Great Hell Other Those Said Blocks Hearts Paved Granite Hell Is Who
Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it. Jason Reitman
Character You Face Starts Find Finding See Shape Head Arm Piece Chip Then Granite Away Start Filmmaking Gather
It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite. Kevin Jorgeson
Learning Impossible Language Would Would-Be Easy Write Dawn New Terms Climbing Off Wall Really Granite Technique
When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are. Maggie Hassan
Work You People Work Hard Weather Gender Cold Cold Weather Worrying Rural About Small Lot Going Stop Place Really Granite Hard Who Need
As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead. Maggie Hassan
Together Opportunity Problems Changing Everyone Our Way Independents Solve Stay New Economy Democrats New Hampshire Hampshire Governor Get Republicans Worked Granite Help Hard-Working Bringing Adapt
The Granite State needs a senator who knows that New Hampshire comes first - and leads like it. Maggie Hassan
Needs First State Leads New Like Knows New Hampshire Hampshire Senator Granite Who
If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be. Philippe Petit
Me You Balance Solid Out Would Able Beat Take Wire Pushed Put Head Piece Practicing Tight Am Up Move Wood Should Rope Shoulder Granite
The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds. Sabine Baring-Gould
Back Distorting Folding Feature Prime Altering Geology Beds Upheaval Granite
Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons. Zahi Hawass
Needs Important Statue Statues Some Restoration Features Had Weighs Between Most Parts Were Close Five The Most Important Which Granite Many Found Four Tons
Once my sister was older, she and I would do lots of hobbies together. We took dance lessons and put on shows at home; tap dancing on the granite fireplace, which must have mortified my dad. Katie Piper
Home Together Dance Sister Older Took Dancing Once Must Would Fireplace Put Mortified She Tap Lots Hobbies Which Granite Lessons Shows Dad

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