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A small rock holds back a great wave.

– Homer

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

– Dwight D Eisenhower

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

– Gale Brook Burket

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

– Richard Diran

In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

– Thomas Jefferson

What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

– Ovid

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

– Jacob August Riis

Why when you have 31 Flavors stick with Rock Road?

– Tom Zegan

"You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark!" (El Filibusterismo)

– Dr. Jose P. Rizal

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so wise men falter not amidst blame or praise.

– The Dhammapada

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

– Will Rogers

Do not spend much of your energy trying to move a large rock, instead move as many smaller stones as you can

– Lot Chakonza

Don't look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain't any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Dont sit like a rock,work like a clock.

– vani

Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Everything needs a mirror to see what to change and what to love in itself, even a rock or a duck, everything!

– Mehmet Murat ildan

Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?

– William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, Introduction

He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.

– Constance Naden

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

– Aretha Franklin

I find it funny how people pick you flaws to try boos there confidence. But when you can't break the rock baby, your picking on the wrong mountain! Keep hustling', keep bustlin' and your true colours will show...

– Dion Petrig

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

– Thomas Jefferson

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