Explore Quotes on Rocks

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

In the space of one delivery so much had changed. My confidence was sky-high. I was pumped up and rock'n'rolling.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served.

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.

When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition.

Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? 'Cause I can, I'm a rock star.

Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.

Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.