Bones Quotes

• I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

  Jack London

  Dog, Generosity, Giving

  Jack London (2015). “The Road: Classic American Literature”, p.3, 谷月社

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• Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Passion, Hypocrisy

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1727, Delphi Classics

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• Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

  Peter Ustinov

  Children, Cutting, Parenting

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• 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.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspiring, Lying, Victory

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• 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.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Pain, Suffering, Doe

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

  Mike Tyson

  Brain, Trying, Noses

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• Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Hurt, Honesty, Self

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• My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

  Alice Sebold

  Names, Salmon, Firsts

  The Lovely Bones ch. 1 (2002)

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• Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Eye, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• The dog that trots about finds a bone.

  Golda Meir

  Dog

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• 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.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Men, Blue, Sun

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Richard Marshall, Yvonne Scott, Achille Bonito Oliva, Vancouver Art Gallery (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: nature and abstraction”, Skira - Berenice

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

  Walt Whitman

  Funny, Humor, Sticks

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.25, NYU Press

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

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Wisdom, Men

  1599 Antony. Julius Caesar, act 3, sc.2, l.74-86.

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• Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

  Debi Mazar

  Mean, Thinking, Issues

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hair, Blood, Woods

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• My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

  Saffron Burrows

  Thinking, Parent, Political

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• The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

  Steven Spielberg

  Horse, War, Stories

  "Steven Spielberg discusses War House". Interview with Victor Medina, www.cinelinx.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Can I help you with something?" Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Air, Car

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.

  Cassandra Clare

  Class, Beginners, Pages

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

  Alice Sebold

  Mean, Lovely, Rays

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Blood, Names

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• In future, Clarissa," he said, "it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations." You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken. Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wise, Men, Bed

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Badass, Mean, Say Anything

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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