The stones breathe.

The stones breathe.  Once in a thousand years and our life is too short to notice

 (Fabrizio Caramagna)

 Sometimes, if you look at the stones very carefully, you can understand the ocean.

 (Terry Pratchett)

 You'll find more in the woods than in books.  Trees and stones will teach you what cannot be learned from masters.

 (Saint Bernard)

 If we had stone eyes, we would see how mountains move.

 (Eero Suvilehto)

 Silence.

 Scratch the stone

 a song of cicadas.

 (Matsuo Basho)

 The sentence must have the hardness of stone and the trembling of leaves.

 (Nicolás Gómez Dávila)

 Is a mountain just a huge stone?  Is a planet a huge mountain?

 (Stanisław Lem)

 The water passes, the stones remain.  But only they know at what price.

 (Vasile Ghica)

 Sometimes I feel like a stone thrown bouncing off water, convinced that it can fly and unaware that sooner or later it will have to sink.

 (Fabrizio Caramagna)

 God is the arm, chance is the sling, man is the stone.  Try to resist once launched.

 (Victor Hugo)

 Nothing is built on stone;  everything is built on sand, but we must build as if sand were stone.

 (Jorge Luis Borges)

 Be like the old stone hidden in the foundations, underground, where no one sees you: just for you the house will not collapse.

 (St. Josemaria Escrivà de Balaguer)