Bones Quotes - Page 37

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

  James Howe

  Names, May, Stones

  James Howe (2011). “The Misfits”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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

  Charles Studd

  Missionary, Good Things, Sleeves

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• My partner has to have good sized bones.

  Macklemore

  Partners

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. The photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dry as an old bone. Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming, membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos.

  Lewis Thomas

  Distance, Moon, Blue

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.

  Ally Condie

  Together, Use, Grows

  Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.180, Penguin UK

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• A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.

  Ruth Reichl

  Years, Knives, Kitchen

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• Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

  Alice Hoffman

  Real, Hair, Blood

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Skylight Confessions”, Center Point Pub

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• It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

  Rory Bremner

  Dog, Names, Giving

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• I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.

  Shashi Tharoor

  India, Matter, Facts

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• Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for days, a sound and vision only those who've been to the bottom and clawed their way back up can generate. His midnight gifts evoke Hank Williams and Skip James as much as Tom Waits and Dylan. Not everybody will get this music - because not everybody is ready for the truth.

  Jerry Stahl

  Song, Dark, Waiting

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• The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Men, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive.

  Sandra Lee

  Skins, Different, Chickens

  Interview with Kathryn Jezer-Morton, www.askmen.com.

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• I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is too painful, and I break down completely. These are my relatives, friends and neighbors, I keep thinking ... It is a long time before I am calm again. And then I am able, with my bare hands, to rearrange the skulls and bones so that they are not scattered about.

  Dith Pran

  Thinking, Hands, Skulls

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• There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is... Joe Torre is for Joe Torre. ... The graveyard of Yankees coaches is loaded with bones of coaches Joe Torre did nothing about.

  Michael Kay

  Yankees, Cold, Torres

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• Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

  Kathy Reichs

  Stories, Gender, Backgrounds

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• Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hurt, May, Stones

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• You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.

  R. Scott Bakker

  War, Mean, Dark

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.369, The Overlook Press

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• Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

  Richard Leakey

  Discovery, Long, Tasks

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• My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mothers breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men. But how dare I cut off my mother's hair.

  Smohalla

  Dream, Mother, Native American

  "Wisdom of the North American Indian in speech and legend". Book by Alexander Francis Chamberlain, 1913.

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• I had to learn to be honest with myself. I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I have to realize it's not as if I broke a bone. Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know I can do it and try something else crazy. If you want to win the war, you've got to pay the price.

  Flo Hyman

  Sports, Pain, War

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• After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.

  Friedrich Muller

  Lying, Pride, Blood

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• In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

  Hafez

  Hopeful, Faces, Trouble

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• When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.

  Roberto Bolano

  Grief, Skulls, Broken

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• I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Unity, Flesh, Saws

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail, no matter how terrible. It is always easier to write a piece of fluff and leave everybody smiling. But then, the horrors of poaching would continue unchallenged?like as tent caterpillars consuming an apple orchard, our species mindlessly consumes the others of the earth. At present, the most significant hope for our planet may be knowledge, and Richard Ellis has done a heroic job in providing a large measure of that.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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