Bones Quotes

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Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening… — John Ruskin
America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. — Ellsworth Huntington
At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it… — Georges Cuvier
There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
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… — Terry Brooks
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt;… — Stephen King
As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this… — Thomas Merton
Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog. — Desiderius Erasmus
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under… — John Milton
When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You… — Giovannino Guareschi
In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts,… — Nicolas Steno
Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a… — Patti Davis
I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured...Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. I still… — James Allodi
Investigative reporting is the bone structure without which the journalistic body collapses. The Center for Public Integrity's constant and consistently enterprising investigative work is an… — Alma Guillermoprieto
You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move,… — Florence Griffith Joyner
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. — Llewellyn Powers
Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies. — Edward Abbey
That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is… — Hugh Miller
My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood… — Chief Blackfish
People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me.… — Demi Lovato

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