Bones Quotes - Page 31

• I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.

  Dudley Randall

  Time, Lying, Ocean

  1968 Cities Burning,'Roses and Revolutions'.

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• Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Children, Yoga, Compassion

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• You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Eye, Body

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• Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones.

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Water, Skins

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• Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.

  Sam Shepard

  Running, Character, Blood

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• Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are built of the same bones. No engineer, starting from scratch each time, would have built such disparate structures from the same parts.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Horse, Time, People

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• Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.

  Peter Mayle

  Spring, Rain, Dirty

  Peter Mayle (2001). “Toujours Provence”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out us out of touch with life; too much free time and dull the edge of the soul. We need sometimes to come very near the bone so tha we can taste the marrow of life, rather than its superfluities.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Appreciation, Clothes, Soul

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• Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God. He is the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, the seed of David, the son of Mary, yet God over all, blessed forever. Thus He can bear our sins; He can sympathize with our sorrows; He can fight our battles; He can love as a man, a fellow man, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh.

  Horatius Bonar

  Jesus, Blessed, Fighting

  Horatius Bonar (1881). “Light & Truth: Or, Bible Thoughts & Themes. The Gospels”

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• We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

  Peter De Vries

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Brain

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Jesus, Tombstone

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• This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Lying, Father

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

  Erma Bombeck

  Self Esteem, Cat, Insecure

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