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I'm a little bit concerned about the rocks, actually.

Anette Norberg

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Terry Pratchett

Back in those days, going to the moon, geology was important, ... But how do we train pilots to be geologists? We concentrated on observing, not the analytical parts of the rocks.

Jim Lovell

There, we have been extraordinary, ... But we've only been able to look at a section of rock maybe 10 meters thick, and we want to know how do these rocks relate to what's above and beneath them.

Matt Golombek

Our main goal was just to get kids being more active, just to make sure that when they're out at recess, they're actually moving, not just playing in the rocks.

Sue Curtis

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

David Mccord

It looks like fish tank rocks. Chocolate rocks! ... If you catch the pun.

Jason Schwartzman

It's like throwing rocks from inside a rowboat. Over time, you end up moving the boat.

Matthew Graham

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own, ... You can't clear your own fields while you're counting the rocks on your neighbor's farm.

Cicero

Under this rock lives someone who rocks.

Sheryl Crow

We're finding abundant evidence for alteration of rocks in a water environment.

Ray Arvidson

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics , coupled with erosion.

Anglican Bishop Robert Duncan

No rocks or any other biological objects can be brought back (from Antarctica). They did have a small commissary there where I could buy things like T-shirts.

Scott Nutter

For the hand that rocks the cradle - Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

I'm excited to visit another country and bring experiences and educational experiences back to my students. Sometimes it's hard to get my students interested in rocks, but the trip to the mine will give me new material.

Adam Leonard

Rocks and gravel will come down sometimes. But this is the first time there's ever been a mud event.

Michael Hofmann

They have also not been shy about chucking rocks and bottles at our police officers.

Norm Stamper

What we're doing may be a temporary fix for the summer. We'll have to monitor it throughout the summer to see how well the rocks hold in higher flows and decide if we need to grout it.

Scott Hobson

[If there really is] no place like home, ... Connecticut?s Premium Ice Cream That Rocks!

Jill And

Mobs and looters have been hurling rocks and bricks at passing patrol police vehicles.

Johnson Honimae

We'd just pick up rocks and build a pile of rocks, or trees, and you had to kick it through them.

Victor Espiritu

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Chuck Berry

He was trying to keep it all a secret. I said, 'Hey, pal, you can't keep Red Rocks a secret.' They had a great time here, and he said it was a great location to start it out.

Greg Moody

We will use this as an opportunity to show the world what we do. We like to show everyone that skiing rocks.

Julia Mancuso

There are essentially no craters visible at all. Instead, there are rocks and boulders covering much of the body. And then there are the remarkable flat areas.

Clark Chapman

This is Baldwin softball. There are rocks on this field and it is in a valley, but there is also tradition here.

Vince Sortino

There was a pile of rocks alongside the cliff-side, and another pile sitting next to me in the truck. The windshield just disintegrated.

Alfred Balauro

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Peter Lynch

I do support the cause, but not enough because I don't buy hemp products. I don't have anything hemp. I guess what we are trying to say here is 'Wake up!' Rock's the only way to solve it. Rock's the only way to bring hemp to the masses, not drum circles.

Aaron Baker

Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.

Frederick W. Robertson

I looked at the display and I thought this display of rocks in dishes was the epitome of ridiculous. Then I had an epiphany and instantly realized the stone looked like a miniature mountain, and I became just hooked.

Jim Hayes

Some days he gets up really early, around four or five in the morning, and starts playing like crazy, climbing on his mother, climbing on the rocks.

Lisa Stevens

The fun starts here. New Hampshire rocks.

Tipper Gore

No throwing rocks at other boats. I think that's the only one.

Michael Gowell

He's been doing this forever, over and over. He's one of the rocks on the team.

Andy Lally

We've been throwing the rocks pretty well, I'm not putting the broom where we need to put it. I'm not reading the ice very well, which is part of our problem. But we've got to make the shots when we have the opportunity, and we haven't been doing that. When there's a door open, we're not going in.

Janet Harvey

Smith could 'read' the rocks on the surface. He realized that it was not random, that earth's processes have a cycle and an order to them and that, for example, specific fossils are only in certain rocks.

Tracy Gregg

Rocks are pretty good radiation shields, particularly for the kinds of radiation or energetic particles likely to be in solar-system space.

Bruce Runnegar

There were people getting killed in there left and right, and he would explain how they got killed. A cable broke on a hoist and the whole thing fell clear to the bottom, things like that. A lot of miners were also killed by falling rocks.

Barry Kibler

Those rocks are unstable, people shouldn't be out there. Mavericks is a great event, but it's not a spectator event.

Clayton Jolley

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

Ruth Westheimer

After you've been doing this for awhile, you can tell the difference between hot rocks and something like this.

Jim Kriegh

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

Henry Ward Beecher

If Deltona Rocks is successful, we'll add some more dates.

Stephanie Milstead

This construction is part of the ongoing Chain of Rocks deficiency project to correct design deficiencies and assure that the Chain of Rocks levee will withstand a future 500-year flood event.

Susan Wilson

Imagine this fairylike Temple blazing like sunlight among those savage black rocks.

Frederic Edwin Church

What do rocks do? They sit there and look pretty. It's all about the ear and eye candy.

Kevin Long

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Vladimir Nabokov

I am very excited and also surprised at being nominated for a Grammy. I hope the world rocks with me chanting the hymns.

Ngawang Tashi Bapu

He's a climbing fiend. He's climbing all over the rocks, or he's climbing on his mother. And when he's not climbing on her, he's chewing on her. . . . She lets him treat her like a giant chew toy.

Lisa Stevens

It's all Hawaiian. It really rocks, though.

Henry Kapono Ka'aihue

You have to paddle with the river, not beat it. You can't beat it! It's moving 1,000 pound rocks down the river with ease.

Todd Bethea

I must have had rocks in my head.

Jeanette Macdonald

Running on the rocks barefoot with his feet burned so bad was what hurt him the most.

Ann East

Now they're taking out all the rocks. They look like a bunch of amateurs.

Lorraine Gehrman

About noon we made another water pocket in the lava rocks about a mile from the Grand Chasm.

Thomas Moran

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

Carl Hubbell

I know it's funny. The study of rocks.

Andy Newman

We could not make good fisheries by throwing rocks in it or sticking a regulation on it. The fish population is the ultimate indicator of how well we're doing.

Greg Policky

GETTING your rocks off.

David Robertson

There's a mass of mud and trees and rocks out there on the roadway.

Pat Miller

This is a unique and exciting venture for Hard Rock. In both the Hard Rock Park and Hotel we will be working with some of rock's legendary artists to create a unique entertainment venue.

Hamish Dodds

Above that particular altitude on the mountain, there was a massive fall of rocks that went straight into the people who were climbing.

James Wakibara

My team rocks. With everything that was going on, we had those dogs upstairs, bathed, fed and watered.

Patryce Mendoza

A word of caution is to pay attention to ice conditions and look for obstacles and hidden rocks.

Steve Hennessy

It looks like fish tank rocks.

Jason Schwartzman

I think the more one turns over rocks, I think the more one finds.

John Schiff

They are throwing stones and rocks and have broken into a building and started looting.

Walter Nalangu

It is very easy to see what is in the rocks, what is coming out of the rocks.

James Clarke

Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

Terry Tempest Williams

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Ursula K. LeGuin

We're trying to represent all the native things in Alabama, including rocks. The biggest costs is shipping, so if everyone who visits brings a rock, we cut down on that.

Patrick Thomas

Along railroad tracks, you talk to homeless people - kids throw rocks at them.

Scott Russell

We are also interested in looking at the soils and rocks exposed during impact and making imaging and other measurements of these materials. This latter set of experiments will allow us to probe subsurface characteristics.

Ray Arvidson

We're dedicated to the market. With Coors Amphitheatre and Red Rocks and working with (NIPP) and the Lecture Hall, we've got some great opportunities. We feel very bullish and very strong about it.

Alex Hodges

We're going to make better and better records as we get older, especially considering this one kind of rocks harder. Why should we be rocking harder now? Isn't this when we're supposed to ease into the whole Pink Floyd groove?

Stone Gossard

What she has done is perhaps given the future Republican nominee a rock to throw at her in the upcoming general election. Republicans are looking for rocks to throw at her.

Stan Barnes

There isn't one big drop there, but a lot of water is rushing by the huge rocks.

Jim Elliott

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

John Cleveland

Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.

A. P. Herbert

The rock specialist said there is a huge potential for more rocks falling down.

Kamika Smith

We can't clear it until it's safe to do so, when the weather lets up and our guys can go up there and clear out the material on the hill. They don't want to go up there and risk more rocks coming down on them.

Lauren Wonder

Thus far, though, based on the art, this book rocks. Great-looking cast, diabolical villains, evocative sense of time and place, and the odd, occasional giggle.

Chris Claremont

It's not about rocks or about reserves, it's about investment policy.

Fatih Birol

[When he played the first show,] it was very exciting as an artist. I'd always heard about Red Rocks. I didn't know there was a place that looked like that, ... I have to lift my cap to Bill. I don't know if anyone else can do what Bill does.

Burning Spear

I remember one night crawling around on my hands and knees, looking for these little rocks at 5 in the morning. It was the worst.

Keith Urban

I felt him scrambling. I fell backwards, and when I hit the rocks I felt my back break, like a pop, and my legs went numb.

Nancy Camero

The family did everything right in terms of defending the child. They used rocks and sticks and screamed at the cat.

Tyler Baskfield

I don't think we really thought we'd find this many [victims]. Based on the conditions, on what actually occurred, the amount of debris and rocks and the many miles affected, I think we were impressed we found this many.

Chip Patterson

The best part is looking at the rocks and sand. I like imagining myself on vacation.

Kevin Barrett

Once, I had rocks thrown at me at Taunton Green for rooting for the Yankees.

Paul Barrett

We've actually seen them so close that you can see the spout but you can't see the whale. You have to crawl out on your hands and knees and look out over the rocks. They like to come up and rub against the rocks.

Morris Graves

Some people might look at the park and think it looks clean. If you look closer, you'll see trash in the creek like old plastic bags stuck on rocks. It's getting into the water, and we need to get it out.

Kristi Flippin

The rocks in the Columbia Hills are nothing like the basalt on the plains, ... Water was involved in practically every one that we've seen so far.

Ray Arvidson

It took me half an hour to get over to those rocks.

Harry Wantulok

We were going to play a little bit more conservative, but in the first end we really had no choice, that kind of got out of hand. We were doing a lot of freezes and I think when you freeze that creates more rocks in play and a lot of corner guards. So it was a very fun game to play with all those rocks.

Debbie Mccormick

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

Everybody jumped in and started taking the rocks off her.

Mike Hall

The surface is strewn with very angular, large rocks - much more so than was expected. They've picked the most benign looking spot, but it has not turned out to be very benign.

Andy Cheng

We don't have any evidence that this guy was throwing rocks at the border patrol. It was very close.

Alberto Lozano

We feel like we are being held hostage by civilian terrorists. It is really sad. It is affecting everyone. We can't lead a normal life. We don't know how much damage it's causing, and we have to be prepared all the time. If rocks come down, we are going to have to evacuate.

Gary Burke

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.

Charles Keating

Josh looked really strong for us today and he ran the whole way with rocks in his shoes.

Tim O'malley

We let the dogs hit the debris piles first to see if they had any interest. The amazing thing was to see the amount of destruction. Where before (the breach) there was heavy forest it looked like someone took a stream of water and blasted everything off those rocks. It looked strip-mined.

Dr. Libby Char

We are calling for restraint and calm, we don't think that the problems will be solved by throwing rocks.

Beyene Petros

They screamed and yelled at the cat and also used sticks and rocks to get it off the boy.

Tyler Baskfield

At one of the mosques, two rocks, about the size of two baseballs, were tossed through a window which was shattered.

Guy Lajeunesse

A long time ago, the major mode of transportation was the horse. But when Apache were walking in the hills or mountains, this would protect their toes from rocks and cactus.

Lisa Perry

Money is not the end-all and be-all. Indian Rocks Beach has too many good people and good things going for it. I am thankful I have the opportunity to serve them and will do to the best of my abilities.

Al Grieshaber Jr

I want a film [that doesn't do that], that offers real hope and offers a realistic reflection of who we are and how we behave and still rocks you and moves you like cinema should.

Rowan Woods

Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Those bunkers are full of rocks and they actually become projectiles and dangerous to the crowd and the players.

Jon Brendle

Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.

Goodman Ace

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

William Congreve

The Fox rocks.

Samantha Fox

Someday we must collect these rocks and bring them back to terrestrial laboratories to read their records for clues to the biological potential of Mars.

James Garvin

Rocks were landing right on the viewing area.

Kamika Smith

This was a chronic thing. Dogs don't get skinny and eat rocks over one day. They have to be not fed very much or not fed anything.

Matthew Kearns

Some of the people in the crowd threw rocks and bottles at the police, but no police were injured.

Enrique Garcia

...my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being...

Emily Bronte

Bunch of rocks, couple hills in the background. Now we're landing near a pole. I mean, I don't know what we're going to see.

Edward Weiler