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Pebble Quotes (page 3)

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death. Frederick Douglass
People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. Dorothy Day Dorothy Day
Sylvia Plath quote: "The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all..."
The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. Sylvia Plath
...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night. Toni Morrison
What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. Dorothy Day
Victor Hugo quote: "Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the..."
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. Victor Hugo
Marilyn French quote: "Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains."
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. Marilyn French
Beatrice Wood quote: "My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a..."
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. Beatrice Wood
The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. Robert Wise
Blaise Pascal quote: "The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire..."
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. Blaise Pascal
Confucius quote: "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Confucius
Learned Hand quote: "Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition."
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. Learned Hand
Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here. Chris Martin
I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women. Stevie Smith
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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