Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

American Poet

Jean Rostand

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

French Scientist

Blaise Pascal

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

French Philosopher

Muhammad Ali

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

American Boxer

Beatrice Wood

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

American Artist

Robert Green Ingersoll

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

American Lawyer

Thomas Browne

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

British Scientist

Natalie Gulbis

Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.

American Athlete

Confucius

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Chinese Philosopher

Marilyn French

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

American Author

Pebbles are often found in natural settings, showcasing nature's ability to create smooth shapes over time.

Nature's Artwork

Pebble beaches or riverbeds are common scenarios where pebbles are predominant.

Common Landscapes

Pebbles are often used in gardens or aquariums to create a natural or decorative element.

Decorative Element

Pebbling a surface is a way to provide an alternative to traditional paving, creating a rustic look.

Alternative to Pavement

Using pebbles can add texture to a surface which might be visually and tactilely appealing.

Textural Contrast

A 'pebble of' something valuable denotes finding a small piece of a precious substance.

Valuable Discovery

A 'pebble of' something can imply a very small amount, almost negligible.

Tiny Quantity

Metaphorically, a 'pebble of' food suggests eating a very small, perhaps insufficient, portion.

Minimalist Eating

Using 'pebble of' in idiomatic expressions can imply humility or lack, as in having very little.

Humility or Poverty

 and there are pebbles and rocks covering the surface but when you remove them look underneath we're finding that basically soils are developed there's mosses there's little tussock grasses basically an ecosystem seems to actually be developing under the surface of this very unstable rocky substrate there's much more life

Everest Biology - Life...

 prioritization is the jar of time filled with rocks pebbles and sand placed in the jar in the right order we can fit everything in reminding us to focus on the big things in life first drawing two curves on top of the original matrix and I think we see the area where we can help not with the rocks and the top

In the market for...

 to the lower left, your left, my right. We went east, we went to your right. And it paid off. Very soon after we got started, we started to find these outcrops. The pebbles that you can see weathering out, that are rounded. Becky Williams who is here tonight was the lead author on a science paper

Mars Up Close, Part 2:...

 It can rest still and deep in huge caverns, or it can snuggle in the little crevices of rock and pebble. The upshot - thank goodness for ground water! It's invisible to us, but it is much more plentiful than surface water. It is much more reliable and easier to obtain than frozen water.

Where we get our fresh...

 And I didn't know where he was going with it at first. He was kind of a little bit nervous when he was sharing it with me, but he told me that when a penguin finds a mate that they want to spend the rest of their life with, they present them with a pebble -- the perfect pebble.

LZ Granderson: The myth...

 very interesting not only the pebble toads but many of the reptiles in it ribbons that have gotten to the summit's are actually pretty recently arrived and this is a big paradigm shift a paradigm shift means everybody thought one thing and the whole world has to change now to

Tiny Toad to Tell...

 Walking around as a woman in the world felt like walking with pebbles in my shoes. It took the rhythm out of my swagger, it threw me off balance, it pained me with every step I took forward. But today I'm a man of my own intention; a man of my own design.

A queer vision of love...

 take a look at it and try and be you know give a fair assessment to the whole thing and the name of the project is called pebble project or pebble mine they originally they wanted to call it Pebble Beach mine because they said it

Hidden Alaska PIPE National...

 And I said, "Well, that would be great!" And I actually took out a handful of stones from my pocket that I had been carrying around for weeks, hoping for just this interaction -- and, you know, they were pebbles --

My year of living...

 lazy teenager so far no one has seen him eat any forest fruit and rather worryingly he seems to think the pebble beach is made of coconuts