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  • I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

  • No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

    Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW, March 10, 2010.
  • A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

    Book   Boys   Devil  
    Stephen Crane (2005). “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories”, p.1, Wordsworth Editions
  • Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I still couldn't escape a fundamental question: Why were those children out there in the first place? Where were the parents? Why didn't their mothers and fathers keep them inside? Those children should have been sitting at their desks in school, not running in the streets throwing stones at armed soldiers.

    Mosab Hassan Yousef (2011). “Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices”, p.158, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

    War   Boys   Thinking  
    Song: Long Live Palestine, Album: Soundtrack To Struggle
  • I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes.

    Rain   Home   Glasses  
  • There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

    "Acclaimed Ai Weiwei Doc Hits Theaters; China Braces Itself" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. July 26, 2012.
  • Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

    "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013.
  • You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

  • The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

    The Independent on Sunday, June 24, 1990.
  • I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

    Mean   Glasses   People  
    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.167, Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

    Wall   Work   Men  
    Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.283, North Point Press
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