Bones Quotes

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

Good, Men, Evil

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

God, Him, Proud

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

Lie, Down, Victory

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Ambrose Bierce

Hope, Person, Give

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

Find, Fat, Sticks

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

Life, Love, Time

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

Words, Break, Hearts

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Living, Old, Dead

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

Another, Makes, Dog

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!
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Literature, Oh

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.
Saint Ignatius

Pain, Suffering, Seems

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
Sam Ewing

Waiting, Decision, Down

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

Nature, Great, End

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
William Shatner

Love, Thoughts, Characters

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov

Children, Parents, Cut

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Design, Eyes

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Alanis Morissette

Beauty, Women, Standard

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

After, Wonderful, Against

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Alanis Morissette

Beauty, Women, Live

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
Karl Lagerfeld

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

Revenge, Him, Violence

The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.
Jolene Blalock

Girl, Powerful, Loyalty

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
Benjamin Carson

Nature, Spiritual, Mind

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
Eric Idle

May, Words, Cry

I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
Ellie Goulding

Love, Home, Art

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

Alive, Blood, Lucky

Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.
Jonathan Sacks

Education, Care, Sick

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
Truman Capote

Down, Blood, Cold

Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.
Ellie Goulding

Human, Two, Talk

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.
Alexander Duff

Might, India, Cares

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