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Rocks Quotes
Stone, sound, and everything in between.
This rocks quotes set pairs striking literary imagery, like a cradle rocking above an abyss, with the classic idea that music has charms enough to soften stone itself. See our Nature quotes for more.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Greatness
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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.
- Music
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
- Darkness
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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
- Mountains
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
- Like
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We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
- Sea
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I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
- Earth
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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.
- Old
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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.
- Ignorance
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
- Game
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The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
- Nov 07, 2020
The She Rocks Awards does so much for women in music, and I'm excited to be a part of it.
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