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"The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines."

Evarts, William M. on world    Share


"The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks."

Proverb, English on obedience    Share

"Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice doggie! till you can find a rock."

Catlin, Wynn on diplomacy
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"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."

Saunders on action    Share

"Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on poetry and poets    Share

"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny."

Proverb, South African on country
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"The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't."

Miller, Mitch on rock and roll
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"I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music."

Franklin, Aretha on music
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"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."

Proverb, Indian on action
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"He that winna be ruled by the rudder maun be ruled by the rock."

Proverb, Scottish on persuasion    Share

"Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia."

Carrel, Alexis on action
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"Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers."

Dickinson, Bruce on rock and roll    Share

"A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin."

Herbert, George on memory    Share

"Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it."

Twain, Mark on nations
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"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

Jefferson, Thomas on principles
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"No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on perseverance    Share

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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

Congreve, William on music
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"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."

Petrarch, Francesco on character    Share

"Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose, or, better still, jump in the water and swim for the shore."

Szasz, Thomas on insecurity
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"Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards."

Richards, Keith on rock and roll    Share

"Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria."

Packard, Vance on music    Share

"Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots."

Neville, Richard on music    Share

"A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'"

Ramakrishna, Sri on devotions    Share

"You're talking to someone who really understands rock music."

Gore, Tipper on music    Share

"Gifts dissolve rocks."

Proverb on gifts    Share

"Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters."

Browning, Robert on joy    Share

"A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on ideas
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