Bones Quotes - Page 5

• A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.

  Chinua Achebe

  Brother, Flesh, Trouble

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.11, Anchor

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• I do my show half-hour a night four nights a week. I haven't seen my kids in 18 months, and I am losing calcium in my bones. Doctors say I should stop. I'm not going to.

  Stephen Colbert

  Kids, Night, Doctors

  "Stephen Colbert Enters the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2007.

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• Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.

  Hannah Kent

  Dark, Hateful, Enough

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.

  Edith Sitwell

  Spring, Heart, Light

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Broken, Chickens

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.196

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.

  Richard Dawkins

  Teacher, Hurt, Husband

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• Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

  William Faulkner

  Memories, Flesh, Illusion

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

  Stephen King

  Pride, Necks, Invisible

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

  John Milton

  Sex, Essence, Enmity

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423

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• Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

  John Milton

  Lying, Father, Mountain

  John Milton (2004). “The Complete Poems”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

  Aesop

  Sticks, Flesh

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go over here for a moment. I can say what I think the guy was thinking or what the day looked like or what the bird was doing. If you do that as a playwright, you're dead.

  David Mamet

  Cutting, Thinking, Guy

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• Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.

  Will Cuppy

  Writing, Lions, Necks

  "The Lion". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more.

  George W. Bush

  Senior, Years, Skulls

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• Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.

  Abe Fortas

  Acceptance, Expression, Law

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• Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Coffee, Fall, Black

  "Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within". Book by Natalie Goldberg, 1986.

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• Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

  Pete Seeger

  Library, Graveyard

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps?

  Tobsha Learner

  Morning, Ravens, Two

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• Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Country, Blood, Land

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• For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin and the bones in the flesh and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the goodness of God and enclosed. Yea and more homely; for all these may wear and waste away, but the Goodness of God is ever whole.

  Juliana Berners

  Heart, Soul And Body, Skins

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• like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Tissues, Scar

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• I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Father, Eye

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• Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

  Dolores Hitchens

  Years, Gone, Swamps

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• Having ones image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once youve let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.

  Jack Gleeson

  Years, Ego, Skins

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• I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.

  Tracy Morgan

  Believe, Body, Hateful

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