Bones Quotes

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.

I won a lot, crashed a lot, and broke just about every bone in my body, but I gave it everything I had

If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.

Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

A good dog deserves a good bone.

it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones

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

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

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

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

This planet has rejuvenated itself over and over again. Its species are just witnesses. [Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it tires of us. And all that will be left are the bones.

I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

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

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.

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

Dividing the swing into its parts is like dissecting a cat. You'll have blood and guts and bones all over the place. But you won't have a cat.

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.

The meek may inherit the earth, but at the moment it belongs to the conceited. Like me.

I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored

Who wants a bag of bones?” he said, with absolute sincerity. “I don’t want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I’m bedding.

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit.

The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

Fill all thy bones with aches.

If you run from me, I will chase you, and I'll find you.

Where are you, bloodsuckers? Here, fangy, fangy, fangy...

A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let’s just keep it simple and say he’s a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.