“The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in their stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.”
"The Truth the Dead Know"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
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Rubén Darío book Cantos de vida y esperanza
Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo,
y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente,
pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo,
ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente.
Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal" ("Fatalism")
Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.
“A stone is not self any more than a self is a stone.”
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President and the second President of India
Eminent Indians (1947)
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
CXXIV, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H—, lines 3-6
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704) French bishop and theologian
Quoted in "The Forbes Book of Business Quotations" (1997) by Edward C. Goodman, Ted Goodman , p. 411
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
And It Stoned Me
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)
Henri Poincaré book Science and Hypothesis
Source: Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
Context: The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer
Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 19 “Parker’s Perpetual Mousetraps” (p. 190)