Bones Quotes - Page 29

• Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go.

  Linda Evangelista

  Coffee, Foam, Half

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• Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.

  Rosemary Verey

  Wise, Garden, Important

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• But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Best Effort, Soul

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4272, Delphi Classics

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• Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sports, Character, Opportunity

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• A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

  Bruce Lee

  Army, Men, Break

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• My caddie 'Stovepipe' tried to talk me into hitting a 3-wood. But I took out the turf rider (4-wood) instead. The moment I hit it, I felt something in my bones. Walter Hagen was playing with me and Bobby Jones was on the green. 21 people were behind the green. The sun was going down. I wasn't sure it had gone in the hole until I saw all 21 people jumping up and down.

  Gene Sarazen

  Golf, Jumping, People

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• I don't believe that there's anyone in the world without a competitive bone in their body.

  Shannon Miller

  Believe, Gymnastics, World

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• Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

  Philip James Bailey

  Thinking, Self, Space

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.96

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• Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Poverty, Sweetest

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden”, p.346, Collector's Library

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• Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome, that wrinkled wardrobe of selves stuffed into the skull like too many clothes into a gym bag.

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Dream, Clothes

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• When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.

  Susan Boyle

  Bullying, Hurt, Children

  Susan Boyle (2010). “The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness nor integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.

  Henry Beston

  Nature, Integrity, Animal

  Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”

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• Now, I testify it is a small voice. It whispers, not shouts. And so you must be very quiet inside. That is why you may wisely fast when you want to listen. And that is why you will listen best when you feel, "Father, thy will, not mine, be done." You will have a feeling of "I want what you want." Then, the still small voice will seem as if it pierces you. It may make your bones to quake. More often it will make your heart burn within you, again softly, but with a burning which will lift and reassure.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Father, Heart, Voice

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• Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.

  Erma Bombeck

  Self Esteem, Cat, Insecure

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• Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clothes, Coats, Flesh

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.211, Princeton University Press

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• The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, June

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.53

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• [On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.

  Loren Eiseley

  Moving, Future, Science

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• Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.

  John Ruskin

  Encouragement, Teaching, Science

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it would have been taken. The whole being to which this fragment belonged appears in my mind's eye.

  Georges Cuvier

  Taken, Eye, Science

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• There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is shaken with bone-black, filtered and tested with starch paste. If the colorless solution does not turn the starch blue, the experiment shows how completely charcoal extracts iodine from aqueous solution. If the starch turns blue, the experiment shows that the solution, though apparently colorless, still contains iodine which can be detected by means of a sensitive starch test.

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft

  Mean, Science, Iodine

  Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1926). “Applied Colloid Chemistry, General Theory”

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• What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Discovery, Opposites

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.28, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this love is the resetting of a body of broken bones. Even saints cannot live with saints on this earth without some anguish. There are two things which men can do about the pain of disunion with other men. They can love or they can hate.

  Thomas Merton

  Pain, Hate, Love Is

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.

  Terry Brooks

  Children, Sight, Blood

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• Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Dog, Culture, Plates

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• What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

  John Milton

  Stars, Memories, Son

  John Milton, “On Shakespear”

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