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Bones Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
- One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously…
- Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old…
- We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.
- Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
- Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
- I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones,…
- Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
More Bones Quotes
- Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud
- Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards. — Samuel Beckett
- Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. — Ambrose Bierce
- The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more… — Jolene Blalock
- I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle… — Jo Brand
- 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… — Garth Brooks
- My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My… — Gisele Bundchen
- No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of… — Truman Capote
- We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure.… — Benjamin Carson
- If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense… — Nick Cave
- People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will… — John Jay Chapman
- Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed… — Margaret Cho