Quarry Quotes

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.

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.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

I look like a quarry someone has dynamited.

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 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.'