Rocks Quotes - Page 2

• I wanna rock right now.

  Rob Base

  Rap, Hip Hop, Right Now

  Song: It Takes Two

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• Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny Motivational, Mean, Stones

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• The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

  Charles Ghigna

  Block, Inspiration, Angel

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• The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.

  Wallace Stegner

  Song, Brooks, Ifs

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• Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

  Rumi

  Wildflowers, Littles, Sufi

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• With love, even the rocks will open.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Love

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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

  Looks, Unshakable, Stills

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• A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

  Vera Nazarian

  Wise, Take Time, It Takes Time

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• No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strength, Perseverance, Years

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.649, Delphi Classics

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  The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

  Lee Iacocca

  Family, Cousin, Family Love

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• Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Guy, Sailing, Nautical

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

  Paul Simon

  Pain, Islands, Cry

  Song: I Am a Rock, Album: The Paul Simon Songbook

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• The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

  T. S. Eliot

  Church, Failing, Christian Church

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.524, Faber & Faber

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• . . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love Is, Water, Siddhartha

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  Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Men, Young Friends, Storm

  "Fictional character: Edmond Dantès". "The Count of Monte Cristo", 2002.

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• And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fog, Sides, Marshes

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “Very Far Away from Anywhere Else”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hard Times, Frustration, Roots

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• Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Self, Atman

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

  Steven Tyler

  Soul, Inspired, My Soul

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• The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing.

  Keith Richards

  Easy

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• I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

  Henry James

  Littles, Trust Me, Firm

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• God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

  Kirk Franklin

  God, Christian, Religious

  Twitter post from Apr 22, 2012

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• As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I'll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I'll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can".

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, Garden

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

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• Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

  Bill Viola

  Tree, Feelings, Vision

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