Bones Quotes

• To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Broken
  • Humans
  • Cost

• We've all got stardust in our bones...

  

  Ben Harper
  • Bones
  • Stardust

• Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fall

• This religion teaches that 6,000 years ago God made the first man out of dust - not even mud - and the first woman out of a bone; that God cursed the whole human race because a snake made the woman eat an apple; that God had a son by another man's wife, and that he had this son murdered in order to keep himself from sending all the human race to hell.

  

  Charles Chilton Moore
  • Men
  • Wife
  • Son

• America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • America
  • Bones
  • Rising

• Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Kids
  • Interesting
  • Party

• Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Soul
  • Human being
  • Bones

• “Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Follow
  • Soon
  • Yours

• 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
  • Cold
  • Cheerful

• I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Worship
  • Cremated
  • Won't come

• Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Hearts
  • Bones
  • Bodies

• Commoners bones may have been dug up again and slung into a charnel house: for royalty, burial was for ever.

  

  Catharine Arnold
  • Royalty
  • Burial
  • Commoners

• It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.

  

  Eve Merriam
  • Home
  • Proud
  • Beauty

• We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Rest
  • Bones
  • Word Of Grace

• When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

  

  Wilbur Smith
  • Bury
  • Fuss
  • Vacate

• I still skate occasionally but last time I did, at our show in Hanford, I did a 360 frontside varial over our rolled-up banner and broke every damn bone in my body. Ok, I only broke one bone. Well, I didn't break any bones, but I could have!

  

  Jade Puget Blaqk Audio
  • Body
  • Break
  • Broke

• Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • May
  • Words
  • Hurt

• Cursed be he that moves my bones.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Moving
  • Memorable
  • Cursed

• I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Flesh

• And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Wind
  • Long Time
  • Murmuring

• A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Book
  • Thoughts
  • Critic

• I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Hollywood
  • Bones

• You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Heart
  • Your
  • Not In Love

• Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Children
  • Innocent
  • Atheism

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