Cut Stone

Famous quotes containing the words cut and/or stone:

    It’s a very delicate surgical operation—to cut out the heart without killing the patient. The history of our country, however, is a very tough old patient, and we’ll do the best we can.
    Dudley Nichols, U.S. screenwriter. Jean Renoir. Sorel (Philip Merivale)

    Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)