Marrow Quotes
87 Marrow quotes by 79 unique authors
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... 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
— Sidney Crosby
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.
— Haruki Murakami
Who Wrote These Marrow Quotes
79 authors contributed a total of 87 Marrow Quotes, led by these top contributors: