Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can…

“They call it a “Whippoorwill” because the call it makes sounds exactly like it’s saying “WHIPPOOR-WILLL,” but in a whistle. Oh it doesn’t stop…

— Kyle Rohrig

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

— John Green

“What is that old children’s rhyme, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’? Anyone who says that doesn’t…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Trust the one Who's been where you are wishing all it was Was sticks and stones Those words cut deep but they don't mean…

— Hunter Hayes

“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts”

— Robert Fulghum

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration…

— Michael Franti

“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as…

— Shane Koyczan

I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go, Lauren, It…

— Lauren Conrad

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

— Mark Haddon

“Sticks and stones are hard on bones, Aimed with angry art, Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart.’ Phyllis McGinley, "Ballade…

— Lilliana Anderson

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I might be a vampire so I don't give a shit. I'll heal”

— Gena Showalter

“Sticks and stones may break my bones’, as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words you can build a world…

— Joanne Harris

A liar is one of the nastiest people on the face of the earth. Whoever said sticks and stones may break my bones, but…

— Donna P

Now sticks 'n' stones'll break ya bones, a little tokin' never hurt no one. Let's toke, toke, toke about it.

— Nikola Tesla