“I've often wondered if maybe I tried to tell too many stories in The Sand Pebbles.”
Robert Wise
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”
Chinese Proverbs
“The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone”
Japanese Proverb
“Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth”
Plutarch
“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with”
Plato
“A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“The ocean and I have many pebblesTo find and wash off and roll into shape.”
William Stafford
