Also known as Granite, Oklahoma, Granite, OK

Granite is a town in Greer County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,628 at the 2020 census.

Overview

Granite is a town in Greer County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,628 at the 2020 census.

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Also known as Granite, Oklahoma, Granite, OK

Notable quotes

“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.”
— Francis Bacon, Essays (1625), "Of Beauty"
“Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages.”
— Robert Browning, "Women and Roses", in Men and Women (1855)
“All available stones... possessed sacred, eternal qualities. ...[A]ll living things perish ...the imposing rocks and cliffs stood eternally. ...[S]tone was symbolic of the eternal realm. ...[S]tone materials were devoted exclusively to religious monuments and sacred funerary paraphernalia. ...intended to survive for eternity.”
— Joseph Davidovits, The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988) p. 67.
“Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?”
— Jesus, (KJV)
“In one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread with the other.”
— Plautus, Aulularia (c. 2nd-3rd century BC), Act II, sc. 2, l. 18
“Adopt the character of the twisting octopus, which takes on the appearance of the nearby rock. Now follow in this direction, now turn a different hue.”
— Theognis of Megara Line 215.

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