Marrow Quotes - Page 5

• Tell him I hate him to his guts and the marrow of his bones!

  Diana Gabaldon

  Hate, Bones, Guts

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1390, Dell

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• Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Suits Of Armor, Skins, Naked

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery”, p.61, Shambhala Publications

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• Feather to fire,fire to blood
  Blood to bone,bone to marrow
  Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...

  Gregory Colbert

  Fire, Blood, Snow

  "Ashes and Snow". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. March 05, 2005.

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• A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.

  Les Dawson

  Growing Up, Squares, Wind

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• This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Book, Fall

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Penguin

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• History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

  Nikolay Chernyshevsky

  Hurt, Grandchildren, Hands

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• Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

  David Crosby

  Song, Long, Poetry

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• Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.

  Nathan Deal

  Years, Two, Needs

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• I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

  Philip Roth

  Memories, Biographies, Bones

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• Blood of my heart, protection is thine. Life of my life, taking yours, taking mine Body of my body, marrow and mind Soul of my soul, to our spirit bind Blood of my heart, my tides, my moon Blood of my heart, my salvation, my doom

  Kami Garcia

  Heart, Moon, Blood

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• Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

  Arthur Helps

  Lying, Men, World

  Sir Arthur Helps (1857). “Companions of My Solitude”, p.58

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• Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then devour the living flesh, rot the bones, and penetrate to the very marrow. Philosophy at first refutes errors. But if it is not stopped at this point, it goes on to attack truths. And when it is left on its own, it goes so far that it no longer knows where it is and can find no stopping place.

  Pierre Bayle

  Philosophy, Errors, Stopping

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• St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Loss, Years, Remembrance

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.37, Pan Macmillan

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• Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.

  Tom Robbins

  Home, Fire, Volcanoes

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.

  Neal Shusterman

  Fear, Fall, Feelings

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “Dread Locks #1”, p.14, Penguin

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• Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Wall, Branches, Gothic

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• Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us do, but embraced them as his own, clutching them to his heart in a choke-hold grip. He did not try to escape them by denying them or drugging them or bargaining with them. He met them where they lived, in the secret place most of us keep hidden. Warthrop was Warthrop down to the marrow of his bones, for his demons defined him; they breathed the breath of life into him; and without them, he would go down, as most of us do, into the purgatorial fog of a life unrealized.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, Heart, Men

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

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• Malcolm Fraser, in the marrow of his bones, despised racism. He despised people who discriminated against other people because they were different and in particular because of the colour of their skin, and I don't think there has been a time in Australian politics where there has been more attention to the importance of that value.

  George Brandis

  Thinking, Racism, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

  Storm Jameson

  Memories, Animal, Blood

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.50, A&C Black

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• Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.

  Florence King

  Team, Play, Groups

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• Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and kill Rolf, was Mr. Stock's first victim. The marrow caught him THOCK! on the side of the head. It laid the Puck out cold on the grass, but the mighty vegetable remained intact, mottled and glossy

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Rushing, Yelling, Vegetables

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