Top 115 Rocks Quotes

I’d had a racist experience as a child at age 10, where people had thrown rocks at me and bottles. I didn’t understand. And all it was, was because of the color of my skin, nothing I had done, nothing I had said.

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We’d lead attacks. We’d break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

Our moon was born too small to harbor life. It came from the collision of a Mars-sized world into the primordial Earth. From that colossal crunch spun a disk of rocks that condensed into a satellite.

I don’t I don’t really care what people expect me to do at these Games. It’s all about me. It might sound a little selfish, but it’s what I want to accomplish and reaching my potential. Everything else, everybody else’s opinion, they can kick rocks.

I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope.

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you’re seeing justifies the conclusions you’re making.

Elizabeth Hurley rocks. She really rocks.

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.

It’s because I have no sense of shame that I’m always willing to give things a go: I’ve ridden horses naked into the sea, I’ve climbed rocks, all kinds of things.

Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print ‘EST 19XX’ on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected to lose or give up and ‘wave the white towel,’ so that is why our flag is black. We never give up – never surrender. EST means ‘Everyone Stands Together.’ The ’19XX’ is to represent any age.

Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he’d been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.

California has a beautiful coastline. It can be a rough coastline. The waves are huge. The rocks are steep. Same thing in Vancouver. It has a beautiful coastline. It’s dramatic.

Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It’s a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It’s the same with inspectors.

I love studying asteroids because they are relatively simple, just rocks in space. They can be understood with physics and described with elegant equations. For the most part, they are serene celestial bodies.

The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.

I was a promising graduate student. I landed a position as a professor before I even started to write my dissertation. While I prepared to start my new job, I decided that I would begin by studying the brine that bleeds sideways within the rocks that underlie the inner Aegean region of Turkey.

It’s great to be part of the whole Ibiza Rocks vibe. Ibiza’s always had a big gap when it comes to bands with guitars so it’s great to be included really.

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

Instagram rocks. I love it, and so do the youth I work with and study.

There was definitely a moment, a time after ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’, when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn’t do it, physically, I just couldn’t. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.

It’s so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

I like the skill set required to be an outdoorsman – to cook food over fire and to climb rocks without ropes, to move around using nothing but yourself and maybe some rudimentary tools.

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.

Being a rock star rocks.

My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you’re seeing… I don’t mind being dashed on the rocks… My most base act of defiance is to live a long time and still rock.

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street… except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven’t broke out at all yet!

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven’t broke out at all yet!

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we’re rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It’s a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

Unfortunately, we haven’t found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet’s surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my philosophy.

Stone Mountain Memorial is the greatest project of its sort ever conceived. It should be finished, because it represent an idea as deep, as basic as the rocks on which our wonderful continent rests.

The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.

I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up eight times a week and not have that time for myself; to do someone else’s lines? When I work for Wendy Wasserstein or Terrence McNally, Neil Simon or even Shakespeare, I do not have the right to change the lines.

‘Hell is for Children’ is amazing to do every night and ‘Promises in the Dark’ and ‘Love Is a Battlefied,’ of course, but my absolute favorite would be ‘Heartbreaker.’ It’s the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It’s so fun to do.

If you’re a poker player and you show up at a casino at 8 a.m., you’re going to be by yourself or with some people that are rocks and just don’t give you any action.

It’s so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the ‘stove’ – the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn’t let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset.

As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

If it weren’t for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

I really didn’t like ‘Done With Mirrors.’ I really didn’t like ‘Just Push Play.’ Then there are other records I really think were good for their time, like ‘Toys and Rocks.’

Octavia Spencer rocks. But just as a human being, she’s so down-to-earth. Talk about being pleasantly surprised. You walk onto set, and she’s making these jokes, and she’s playing around with the cast and the crew, and she invited all to her house for a dinner party. She’s just a genuinely good person.

New Day rocks. I can’t lie.

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

It’s better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.

It’s great to be part of the whole Ibiza Rocks vibe. Ibiza’s always had a big gap when it comes to bands with guitars so it’s great to be included really.

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.