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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. -- Samuel Butler
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline. -- Robert Smithson
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. -- Marc Bloch
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. -- Oliver Goldsmith
West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with -- Mary Kingsley
So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. -- John Milton
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes. -- Tod Papageorge
When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing. -- Alice Lowe
Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture. -- Rob Kall
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep. -- J. K. Bharavi
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone. -- PJ Harvey
The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal ... -- Marie Corelli
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it. -- Joseph Addison
It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art. -- Michael Stipe
The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her. -- Gina Barreca
The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue. -- Thomas Gray
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft... in others it is medium... in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania , red and black tufas ; in Umbria , Picenum, and Venetia , white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is with his quarry and his only real challenge is the challenge to himself. Nothing can add to this, but the blight of interhuman competition can certainly detract from it. -- Roderick Haig-Brown
So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged by his dungeon; but, sustain'd and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Thanatopsis -- William C. Bryant
I look like a quarry someone has dynamited. -- Charles Bronson
I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited. -- Charles Bronson
I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again. -- Nell Newman
To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there. -- Seamus Heaney
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy. -- John le Carre
I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty. -- M. John Harrison
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone. -- PJ Harvey
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' -- Laura Riding
The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner. -- Arnold Gingrich
they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry. -- Blaise Pascal
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit. -- Irvin D. Yalom
Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend? -- Gail Carriger
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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