Allstone Granite Quotes & Sayings

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends. — Christopher Hitchens

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life. — Martin Luther King Jr.

That same intense, overpowering, and all-encompassing love that you feel for your family can also be utterly terrifying. — Mark Deklin

But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice. — Mark Hopkins

I'm a bad son of a bitch, I'm a hard son of a bitch, I deserve a frigging medal. — Jackson Spencer Bell

They were your friends?"
"Yes, they were my friends."
"And they will leave you to suffer alone?"
"Now I see it."
"And until this, were they friends you could trust?"
"I could trust them."
"I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind of friends that a good man could choose, upright, hard-working, obeying the law?
Tell me, were they such friends?
And now they leave you alone?
Did you not see it before?"
"I saw it. — Alan Paton

Maybe just as skin on a hand grows together after pain in repetition, a person does too. But I don't want to become a calloused man. — Veronica Roth

What kind of a ridiculous animal are we to be lords of the world after the dinosaurs had failed? Sure, we're intelligent, but what's intelligence? We think it is important because we have it. If the Tyrannosaurus could have picked out the one quality that he thought would ensure species domination, it would be size and strength. And he would make a better case for it. He lasted longer than we're likely to. — Isaac Asimov

It's delicious, ingenious, perfect, intelligent that you never felt like you fit in. It means that you were always alive, and therefore unique and irreplaceable, designed to resist any kind of labeling whatsoever, unable to be pinned down or reduced to a category. — Jeff Foster

Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise. — Elizabeth Lesser

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The world I grew up in is gone, too," I said quietly. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to give up on it. Because if you give up - then what is there left to live for? — Danielle Paige