Man is a marble piece; unlike Michelangelo’s masterpieces, man is unconsciously carved — Mehmet Murat Ildan
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face — Anton Chekhov
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . . — Elizabeth Barrett Browning