Granite Quotes:

Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.

- John R. Erickson

topic: Tombstone, Made, Granite

I got a granite chin.

- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Granite, Chins

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

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Strong, Stepping Stones, Positive Thinking And Attitude

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Nature, Silence, Mountain, Walks In Nature, Granite

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.

- Yvon Chouinard

topic: Stars, Believe, Rocks, 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

topic: Stupid, Literature, Unshakable, Granite

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Block, Past, Men, Granite

A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down. Some people have written the story of my life representing as truth what in fact derives from ignorance, error or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it.

- Haile Selassie

topic: Strong, Rain, Believe, Strong Foundation, Strong Winds

Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

- Ezra Pound

source: "Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts".

topic: Pregnancy, Eye, Squares, Granite

Magic is the only way to describe it, climbing pitch after pitch of the most perfect, beautifully sculpted granite in the world.

- Ron Kauk

topic: Climbing, Perfect, Magic, Granite

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

- Primo Levi

topic: Spring, Science, Hands, Sinai, Fiery

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

topic: Book, Writing, Hands, Granite, Bare Feet

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

source: "Maine (Celebrate the States)". Book by Margaret Dornfeld and Joyce Hart, 2010.

topic: Dark, California, Islands, Dark Blue, Palette

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.227, Vintage

topic: Political, Steel, Politics, Granite

The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow.

- Mary Howitt

source: Mary Botham Howitt (1847). “Ballads and Other Poems”, p.238

topic: Strong, Blow, Sea, Lashes, Wild Sea

When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a steamroller.

- Subhas Chandra Bose

source: "Formation and growth of the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj)" by Durlab Singh, (p. 25), 1946.

topic: Wall, Army, March, Granite

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

- Wilfred Owen

topic: War, Tunnels, Profound, Granite

Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

topic: Heart, Eye, House, Stabbing, Granite

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

- Alfred Armand Montapert

source: Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct

topic: Love, Men, Compassion, Bronze, Granite

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Writing, Poetry, Temples, Rubble, Granite

People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Moving, Dark, Past, Gray Skies, Granite

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

- Diane Chamberlain

source: Diane Chamberlain (2012). “The Lies We Told”, p.520, Harlequin

topic: Lying, Moving, Stories, Granite

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1235, e-artnow

topic: Dream, Distance, Sadness, Bogs, Granite

Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.

- Robert Graves

topic: Running, Strong, Children, Granite

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

source: "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2011.

topic: Character, Faces, Pieces, Granite

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.116, Coyote Canyon Press

topic: Dream, Joy, Soul, Solemn, Aisle

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Travel, Moving, Cutting, Granite

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.

- Nadia Giosia

topic: Mean, Home, Ducks, Granite

Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from below. There was a sharp, unbearable smell of birds, of cod, of green decaying seaweed. Through the mist the huge ruddy sun loomed nearer and nearer. And in the sea, dark blood welled up to meet it - in bloated, rearing, huge white waves. Night. The mouth of the bay between two cliffs was like a window. A window shutting out curious eyes with a white shade-white woolly fog. And all that you could see was that behind it something red was happening. (The North)

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

topic: Eye, Dark, Night, Roasting, Granite

There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.

- Chris Bonington

topic: Nature, Travel, Block, Glaciers, Granite

I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?

- Edward Abbey

topic: Girl, Children, Rocks, Clear Water, Granite

Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!

- Lewis Mumford

source: Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

topic: Dream, Regret, Maturity, Soap Bubbles, Granite

Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.348, Library of America

topic: Lying, Light, Ice, Mono, Glare

And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

topic: Strong, Home, Patriotic, Beacons, Stand Strong

Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.

- Bill Mollison

topic: Beach, Years, Sea, Granite

Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Men, World, Earth, Mould, Granite

Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it has been definitely established that in its deepest places, for instance, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the Earth's crust is devoid of granite stratum. The same may be said quite confidently about the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Could the interpretation of these data be that inland seas were the primary stage of the formation of oceanic basins?

- Vladimir Belousov

topic: Ocean, Sea, Data, Gulf Of Mexico, Granite

Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of the fig tree, makes the low wall of coarse Granite warm to the touch. Here my tools lie ready and waiting, Each one an intimate, an ally: the round basket for weeds: The zappetta, the small hoe with a short haft . . . There's a rake here as well, at at times a mattock and spade, Or two watering cans filled with water warmed by the sun. With my basket and small hoe in hand, facing the sun, I Go out for my morning walk.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Weed, Morning, Wall, Morning Walk, Terrace

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

- Ansel Adams

topic: Space, Sunrise, Yosemite, Edifice, Flowing Water

At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.

- Mohammed Dib

topic: Nature, Reflection, Sky, Granite

...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Fall, Home, Rocks, Granite

If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast cypress, haggard With storm-drift; but fire and the axe are devils. Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant.

- Robinson Jeffers

topic: Art, Home, Dark, Haggard, Cypresses

From millions of men . . . one man must step forward who with apodictic force will form granite principles from the wavering idea-world of the broad masses and take up the struggle for their sole correctness, until from the shifting waves of a fre thought-world there will arise a brazen cliff of solid unity in faith and will.

- Adolf Hitler

source: Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

topic: Struggle, Men, Ideas, Brazen, Granite

I received my Master's degree from the University of Utah while coaching at Granite High School. I obtained my doctorate from BYU while coaching. I pursued these degrees to prepare myself if coaching didn't work out.

- LaVell Edwards

source: Source: universe.byu.edu

topic: School, Utah, Byu, Doctorates, Granite

Cremation has become the most popular form of burial in the United States... People used to want a big, thick granite stone, their names carved into with a chisel. I was here dammit! Cremation is like you're trying to cover up a crime. Burn the body. Scatter the ashes around. As far as anyone's concerned this whole thing never happened.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Names, People, Trying, Cremation, Chisels

A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

- William Ellery Channing

source: William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.7

topic: Together, Bricks, Dignity, Plasters, Granite

The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.

- John McPhee

source: John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.22, Macmillan

topic: Church, Enthusiasm, Affection, Geologist, Granite

I'm in New Mexico making a movie called "Granite Mountain." I'm playing the head of the organization called Statesman, which is the United States version of Kingsman. I'm like how Michael Caine was in the original.

- Jeff Bridges

source: "eff Bridges talks to us about his gripping new movie and why he wants to play The Dude again". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2016.

topic: Organization, Mountain, United States, Granite, New Mexico

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.74, Courier Corporation

topic: Wind, Iron, Atheism, Brass, Boiler

Entranced by the flight of a raven, I watch its shadow move effortlessly against golden, shimmering granite. I long to be that free, flying above the cluttered world of normalcy, where so many are half alive.

- Dean Potter

topic: Moving, Long, Flying, Granite