Quotes of Gravel - somelinesforyou

“ Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: / Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. ”

- Bible

“ In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Failure should be nothing more than an embarrassment, like ending up in a gravel trap, rather than spending weeks in hospital. ”

- Damon Hill

“ Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill. ”

- Edmund Morrison

“ Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone. ”

- Tyra Banks

“ They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. ”

- Bible

“ The reason it's called Grape Nuts is that it contains dextrose, which is also sometimes called grape sugar, and also because Grape Nuts is catchier, in terms of marketing, than A Cross Between Gerbil Food and Gravel, which is what it tastes like. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they do now in steam stage-boats. ”

- Oliver Evans
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