Bones Quote by Marcus Aurelius

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a…

— William Faulkner

“The earth, so long a slaughter field, shall yet an Eden bloom, the tiger to the lamb shall yield, and war descend the tomb.”

— Writer Adin Ballou Philosopher Activist

And the lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make thy bones: and thou shalt be like a spring…

— Bible

“Pommes de Terre” The plow; the raw September earth; the massive-haunched and mighty-hoofed old bay clomping and farting down the furrow; Father holding the…

— Edward Abbey

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

— Ellis Peters

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age;…

— Robinson Jeffers

“There, on the soft sand, a few feet away from our elders, we would sprawl all morning, in a petrified paroxysm of desire, and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Today I speak to my bones as I would speak to a dog. I want to go up the stairs, I tell them. Up,…

— Margaret Atwood

“At the root of the tree at the heart of the world, With a chain round his neck, the Wolf lies curled. His gleaming…

— Maculategiraffe

Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being,…

— William C. Bryant

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to…

— Walt Whitman