Family Quote by Jenny Rose

Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,

— Kathy Reichs

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is…

— Richard Leakey

“The ancient bones of our ancestors are like the roots of a great tree, reminding us to stay firmly grounded in our history. Yet…

— Raigon Stanley

Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they…

— Pablo Picasso

“Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your…

— Diogenes

“Bones were bones; these days, nothing was easier to come by.”

— George R.R. Martin

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.

— Buffalo Bill

“Thanks to their hardness, teeth are often the best-preserved animal part we find in the fossil record for many time periods.”

— Neil Shubin

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

— Pete Seeger

“The bone was sent to Dr. Caspar Wistar, the nation’s leading anatomist, who described it at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society in…

— Bill Bryson

I have no history but the length of my bones.

— Robin Skelton