Marrow Quotes

87 Marrow quotes by 79 unique authors

... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb the quickness of… — Lorenzo Scupoli
Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of… — Chogyam Trungpa
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on… — Roger Wicker
You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through… — Neal Shusterman
Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we… — Tom Robbins
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then… — Pierre Bayle
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to… — Arthur Helps
I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes. — Karen Duffy
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions… — Nathan Deal
Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within… — Nathan Deal
Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow. — Sidney Crosby
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking. — Nikolay Chernyshevsky
A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught...… — William Butler Yeats
A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's… — Les Dawson
The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question.… — Martine Batchelor
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow. — George Bernard Shaw
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us… — D. H. Lawrence
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by… — Thomas Merton
Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to… — Janet Fitch
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not… — Henry David Thoreau
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without… — Alex Haley
but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl… — Vladimir Nabokov
Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could… — Jenny Downham
Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence. — Haruki Murakami

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