Rocks Quotes

“Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance. Rocks have their dreams, and the earth changes....”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.”
― Carl Perkins

“I become like a boulder on the beach in a time-lapse video. The sun and moon and stars cross the sky again and again, shadows lengthen and shrink, the tide rushes in and out. The sea heaves in the background, crabs and seabirds flicker in and out of view. Meanwhile, the boulder sits there, stolid, unmoving, all alone, as life whizzes past.”
― Misa Sugiura, It's Not Like It's a Secret

“Älskade Lillebror, vad är det som har hänt", sa hon och slog armarna om honom.
"Krister har kastat sten på mej", sa Lillebror argt.
"Nej, vet nån vad", sa mamma, "en sån elak pojke! Varför kom du inte in och sa till mej?"
Lillebror ryckte på axlarna.
"Vad skulle det vara bra för? Du kan ju inte kasta sten. Du skulle inte kunna pricka rätt på en lagårdsvägg ens en gång."
"Å, din lilla dumbom", sa mamma. "Inte tror du väl att jag tänkte kasta sten på Krister heller!"
"Vad skulle du annars kasta", undrade Lillebror. "Det finns inget annat, åtminstone inget som är lika bra.”
― Astrid Lindgren, Karlsson on the Roof

“Now, Faith dear…”
“Yes, cousin?”
“Of course, you look absolutely ravishing, but perhaps no mention of rocks right away?”
“Not a single sedimentary sequence shall pass my lips, I promise.” Faith attempted to look grave.
“I don’t know what that means, dear, but thank you.”
― Gail Carriger, How to Marry a Werewolf

“To my surprise, I found that geology demanded a type of whole-brain thinking I hadn't encountered before. It creatively appropriated ideas from physics and chemistry for the investigation of unruly volcanoes and oceans and ice sheets, It applied scholarly habits one associates with the study of literature and the arts - the practice of close reading, sensitivity to allusion and analogy, capacity for spatial visualization - to the examination of rocks. Its particular form of inferential logic demanded mental versatility and a vigorous but disciplined imagination. And its explanatory power was vast; it was nothing less than the etymology of the world.”
― Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

“Trees are very often the home of Elemental beings which you would call nature spirits, intelligences of primeval age which enjoy drifting through your world and others in a more amorphous manner. Rocks, mountains, crystals, bodies of water – these too are homes of conscious beings.”
― Elizabeth S. Eiler Ph.D., Singing Woman: Voices of the Sacred Feminine

“Polished round and smooth as marbles or lozenges of stone veined and
striped. Black disclets and bits of polished quartz all bright from the mist off the
river.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“The waves in our mind’s ocean will keep on dashing against the rocks. The waves are the new thoughts and ideas that take shape in our mind. The rocks in our mind are the firm convictions that have been formed since our childhood. But we must learn to be flexible. It is a great advantage to be flexible rather than rigid in our mind. At the same time we must learn to be mindful. To be mindful is to allow the waves to flow and dash in their natural way. Let each wave flow and dash against each rock!”
― Avijeet Das

“I take another look at the stone, run my fingertip over the meticulous brushstrokes, and realize that nothing ever returns to time unless it is stored in mute, voiceless objects; rocks do tell tales after all.”
― Stefan Hertmans, War and Turpentine

“Little by little, over more than two centuries, the local stories told by rocks in all parts of the world have been stitched together into a great global tapestry - the geologic timescale. This "map" of Deep Time represents one of the great intellectual achievements of humanity, arduously constructed by stratigraphers, paleontologists, geochemists, and geochronologists from many cultures and faiths. It is still a work in progress to which details are constantly being added and finer and finer calibrations being made.”
― Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

“Ideas are similar to rocks; some use them to build and others use them to bash people in the head.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“It’s a traveller, he says, it’s lost like us, a wanderer covering miles. A scavenger that lives amongst the rocks and steals to live. It’s beautiful.”
― J A DuMairier, Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“He knew a narrow deer path that switchbacked through breaks in the rocks and down the ridge. We soon came to flat ground where a few trees populated the foot of the ridge. Sycamores and white oaks, poplars and lindens quickly multiplied around us. Within only a marq or so the trees drew closer and closer together, their roots entangling and branches mingling. The path was fraught with roots that knotted up in strangled bundles until there was no path at all. We were forced to dismount and lead the horses.”
― Christopher C. Fuchs, The Depths of Redemption

“Ideas can be like rocks; some use them to build and others use them to bash other people in the head.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“I’m made of rocks, as you can see, but don’t let that intimidate you. You don’t need to be afraid, unless you’re made of scissors! Just a little rock-paper-scissors joke for you!”
― Korg

“You can be the catalyst that sparks a cultural flame.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“Aspire to be the leader your team wants and the brand deserves.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“Whatever your level of leadership, use your influence to move the company from strategy-based to culture-focused.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“Even if your company is experiencing good times now, the business will eventually be at risk if the leadership culture is not strong or aligned.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“Strong cultures are to organizations what breathing life-giving oxygen is to the body, while weak ones are like poisonous carbon monoxide. Don’t ignore the cultural health of the business.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“Being a leader on a quest to amp up your company’s culture might be one of the hardest things you will ever do, but the journey is so worth it. It can be life-changing.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“Surround yourself with the right people and you’ll have the right culture.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“The greatest accelerant to a cultural flame is leadership.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“Now and forever, culture is only as strong or weak as the employees that make up the organization.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“The desired behaviors will produce the desired culture. Employ the right brand ambassadors and you create a culture that rocks.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“Choose people over process. Many adjustments can be made to an organization’s systems, but changes are only as effective as the human beings making them happen.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“Consumers experience and come to know a company’s culture because of the consistent, widely shared, collective behaviors of the internal team.”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“Don’t get stuck in the past. Celebrate the company’s history (heritage), but focus primarily on the present and future (culture).”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks

“Are you surrounded by rock stars or lip-synchers?”
― Jim Knight, Leadership That Rocks