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  • A single man of one, only pebbles can be moved, but many men together, stands no mountain that can't move.

    Moving   Men   Together  
  • Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from Terra-these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known . . . this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

    Moon   Space   Feelings  
    N.Y. Times, 21 July 1969
  • A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

  • What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

    Change   Lakes   People  
    President Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.
  • Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

    Golf   Land   Water  
  • Greetings, O Great Gazoo. How nice of you to join us here on planet Earth again. (Cael) Thanks, Barney. How’s Betty and Bam Bam doing? (Acheron) Great, if I could only get them away from Wilma and Pebbles. Those women are nothing but trouble. (Cael) Nah, they’re good women. It’s the ones in red who are always the downfall of good men. (Acheron)

    Nice   Men   Good Man  
  • You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

    Change   Evil   Decision  
    A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)
  • Be a rock, not a pebble.

  • Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

    Mouths   Speech   Pebbles  
    "Parallel Lives". "Life of Demosthenes" by Plutarch,
  • Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you over, the way it rushes you onward, a pebble turning in a brook. I've always been obsessed with where I'd go, and what I'd do, and how I would live. I've always harbored a desperate hope that I would make something of myself. Not then. Time stopped seeming so much like the thing that would transform me into something worthwhile and began to be inseparable from death. I spent my time merely waiting.

  • Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

    Patience   Stars   Lying  
    Margaret Fuller (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”
  • One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.

    Ocean   Pebbles   Streams  
    "Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne: Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee".
  • Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.

    Missing   Paper   Pebbles  
  • The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

  • You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.

    Heart   Dust   Cobwebs  
    FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Aug 04, 2013
  • Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.

    Half   Stones   Pebbles  
    "Poor Superman". Book by Fritz Leiber, 1951.
  • For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.

    Love   Wedding   Moon  
    Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company
  • I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

    Grief   Feet   Joy  
    Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.115, Harvard University Press
  • A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

    Horse   Feet   Clothes  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.427, Harvard University Press
  • I have listened to many tales in my life, and told a few of my own. If this has taught me anything, it is that there are some occurrences that change the course of things, that make an alteration far beyond their own apparent magnitude. It is like the throwing of a tiny pebble into a pool, how it makes an ever-expanding circle of ripples, spreading right across the water's surface.

    Circles   Water   Tiny  
    Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.418, Macmillan
  • I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.

  • You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.

    Nature   Children   Ocean  
    Charles Kingsley (1864). “The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby”, p.66
  • Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in gold. The other drinks the greenness of the field with his eye, and kisses every blade with his thought, and fraternizes in his soul with every rootlet and pebble, and every clod of earth.

    Money   Eye   Kissing  
    Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.116, Duncan Baird Publishers
  • The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in my shoe, a voice that I just can't get rid of, and I've got to see it through.

    "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 21, 2013.
  • In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

    Art   Children   Fun  
  • Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it.

    Heart   Way   Pebbles  
    Dean Young (2007). “Embryoyo”, McSweeneys Books
  • What I want to bring out is how a pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. And each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that.

    Ponds   Deeds   Want  
    "Women on War : Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age" by Daniela Gioseffi, (p. 103), 1988.
  • The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.

    Home   Practice   Water  
    Thich Nhat Hanh (1999). “Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966”, p.69, Penguin
  • By `God` I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you will not see a god standing before you, you will see the trees as divine, the rocks as divine, the people as divine, the animals as divine. God is spread all over the place, from the pebble to the star, from the blade of grass to the sun - it is all divine.

    God   Stars   Mean  
  • Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

    Children   Reading   Book  
    John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.78, BookCaps Study Guides
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