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Rocks Quotes

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

– Petrarch

Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

– James Wolfe

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

– John Cleveland

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

– Kate Christensen

Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth’s crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica.

– Jill Tarter

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.

– Kim Weston

One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks.

– Jenny Holzer

It’s so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

– Karen Bass

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I’ve never seen a weirder group of people than at the post office. It looks like people are crawling out from under rocks to go to the post office.

– Sebastian Maniscalco

Unfortunately, we haven’t found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet’s surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

– Robert Duncan

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

– Rodney Dangerfield

Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean’s edge, are one of Sydney’s defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.

– Raymond Bonner

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

– Ryan Lochte

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

– Steven Tyler

We’re stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.

– Steven Squyres

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness – a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster – children into strength and athletic proportion.

– William C. Bryant

I don’t seem to take vacations, but I must say, a jaunt into Central Park can be mighty transporting. My boy and I can spend hours in the Ramble scaling rocks and sword fighting with sticks. I often forget I’m in Manhattan when I’m in there.

– Spencer Kayden

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It’s a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

– Steven Squyres

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

– William Congreve

Aerosmith’s ‘Rocks’ is on the list of my top favorite albums of all time.

– Tommy Lee

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