Life is a quarry out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
From the top of the quarry cliffs one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh there his quarry lies.
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell and those stones were cemented in place with
So scented the grim Feature and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
Cameras are like dogs but dumb and toward quarry even more faithful. They point they render and defy the photographer who hopes.
When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.
Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter though well placed in ambush kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep he owned a sheep farm but primarily the family business was in stone.
I look like a quarry someone has dynamited.
I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.
I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows I'm open quarry again.
To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.
But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry whether it's the writer or the spy.
I've never been to the Himalayas and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire and by god they can be dirty.
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker and conscious of need responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.
they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.
I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that though illusion often cheers and comforts it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
Captain Niall having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny tiny shreds. "Really what did my poor petticoat do to offend?
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry the quarry of the air the water of the brook the lightning of the cloud the castings of the worm the plough of the frost.