Throwing Stones Quotes

• The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

  James Fenton

  Children, Writing, Poetry

  The Independent on Sunday, June 24, 1990.

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  You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Dog

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• There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

  Ai Weiwei

  Sports, Dictatorship, Stones

  "Acclaimed Ai Weiwei Doc Hits Theaters; China Braces Itself" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. July 26, 2012.

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• A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

  Stephen Crane

  Book, Boys, Devil

  Stephen Crane (2005). “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories”, p.1, Wordsworth Editions

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• Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

  Amira Hass

  Resistance, Action, Metaphor

  "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013.

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• I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mean, Glasses, People

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.167, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes.

  Behdad Sami

  Rain, Home, Glasses

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• No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

  Ai Weiwei

  Sports, Cyberspace, Autocracy

  Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW, March 10, 2010.

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• Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Work, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.283, North Point Press

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• I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

  Mary Wesley

  Respect, Children, Animal

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• Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I still couldn't escape a fundamental question: Why were those children out there in the first place? Where were the parents? Why didn't their mothers and fathers keep them inside? Those children should have been sitting at their desks in school, not running in the streets throwing stones at armed soldiers.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Mother, Running, Children

  Mosab Hassan Yousef (2011). “Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices”, p.158, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

  Lowkey

  War, Boys, Thinking

  Song: Long Live Palestine, Album: Soundtrack To Struggle

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