Famous quotes containing the words granite and/or boulders:
“Mans own youth is the worlds youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earths granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (18041864)
“Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought. Great havoc makes among our originalities. We have reached the mountain from which all these drift boulders were detached.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)