Bones Quotes

I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

I give in to nothing or nobody. Cut me, break my bones, it was all the same.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

When no one is looking, I swallow deserts and clouds and chew on mountains knowing they are sweet bones! When no one is looking and I want to kiss God, I just lift my own hand to my mouth.

The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.

Abuse is abuse; Be nice.. Harsh words don't break bones but they often break hearts.

Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around a blossom of fire. When I stand upright in the wind, My bones turn to dark emeralds.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

There's more to life than cheek bones.

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.

The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse.

Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.