Our Bones Quotes

49 quotes by 45 authors

• Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts. — Robert Fulghum
• 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
• Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It… — Gregory Maguire
• In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated,… — Steven Brust
• Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill; — Wallace Stevens
• Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road.… — John Piper
• Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the… — Wil Wheaton
• Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and… — Terry Pratchett
• Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher… — Kate Atkinson
• our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory — Charles Bukowski
• The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before… — Morgan Llywelyn
• They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog… — Shane Jones
• Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. — Djuna Barnes
• sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can’t quite explain. Sometimes it’s just something we feel in our bones, something we know to… — Julia Quinn
• A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and… — Rachel Carson
• If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all. — Mother Teresa
• And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one… — Anne Sexton
• I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are… — Andrea Gibson
• We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're… — Lauren DeStefano
• We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he… — Lauren DeStefano

Who Wrote These Our Bones Quotes

45 authors contributed a total of 49 Our Bones Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Our Bones Quotes by Lauren DeStefano
• 2 Our Bones Quotes by Djuna Barnes
• 2 Our Bones Quotes by Richard Louv
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Geri Larkin
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Paul Bloom
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Steven Pinker
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Judith Jamison
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Derrick Jensen
• 1 Our Bones Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Martin Prechtel
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Mark
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Patrick Marber
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Cheyanne My Friend
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Eugenia Price
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Stanley Victor Paskavich
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Li-Young Lee
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Ben Harper
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Violette Leduc
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Charles Baudelaire
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Marge Piercy
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Robert Fulghum
• 1 Our Bones Quote by D. H. Lawrence
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Gregory Maguire
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Steven Brust
• 1 Our Bones Quote by Wallace Stevens