Bones Quotes - Page 4

• Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Heart, Stones, Sticks

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• It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Old Habits, Beats, Theologian

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2025, Library of Alexandria

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• I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

  Evel Knievel

  Lucky To Be Alive, Blood, Years

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

  Evel Knievel

  Blood, Wings, Hell

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• There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

  Evel Knievel

  Broken, Body, Forget

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• Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Literature, Prey

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.417, Cambridge University Press

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• He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

  John Lennon

  Children, Ocean, Sleep

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fatherhood". Book by Kevin Osborn, p. 134, October 1, 1999.

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• Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

  Adam Smith

  Funny, Dog, Animal

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• My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Couple, Past, People

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Break Up, Revenge, Men

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.45

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• I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

  Jack Kerouac

  Pride, Men, Skeletons

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• Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Optimism, Break

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• My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Truth, Imagination

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.257, Wordsworth Editions

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• [My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse into atoms and molecules. Footprints in the snow will be erased by the next storm. The evidence of evil, like the evidence of good, obeys the universal laws of entropy. Heat cools, matter disintegrates, memories fade. If we let them.

  Simon Norfolk

  Memories, Axes, Law

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• The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Brain, Mind

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

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• I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Hurt, Skateboarding, Want

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• All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

  Simon Winchester

  Home, Japan, Broken

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• When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?

  Sandi Toksvig

  Women, Past, Feminist

  "Sandi Toksvig's top 10 unsung heroines" by Sandi Toksvig, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2009.

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• Grief never mended no broken bones.

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Broken, Broken Bone

  1836-7 Sketches by Boz,'Gin Shops'.

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• Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Brain, Noise, Chance

  Ellsworth Barnard, Edwin Arlington ROBINSON (1969). “Edwin Arlington Robinson”, New York Macmillan 1952.

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• Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: "With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Sweet, Heart, Dark

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Moving, Fortune

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.493, GENERAL PRESS

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• It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

  John Heywood

  Flesh

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.369

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• What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Sunset, Glasses

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• No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.

  Isaac Watts

  Death, Dust, Dying

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of Isaac Watts”

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