Break Bones Quotes

#1. We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.

Walter Mosley

#2. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

James Howe

#3. You got beat up. Bones and bruises heal. Those girls didn't win because they didn't do what they wanted. They wanted to break you.
I was already broken.
You're not broken at all.

Tijan

#4. I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains parting at last. When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath-wet.

Theodore Roethke

#5. Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.

Eric Idle

#6. Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

Marlene Dietrich

#7. My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.

Michael Franti

#8. While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.

Phillip Adams

#9. I'll tell you this, though. It's not true, that saying about sticks and stones; it's words that break your bones.

Merle Miller

#10. The power of words to deceive is a danger far exceeding any we might encounter from physical weapons. Sticks and stones can break bones! But words can lead worlds into ruin!

Steve Bivans

#11. Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#12. She was the wish of his life. He didn't know how else to say it. He didn't even know that he could really explain, just that every time he saw her he felt his bones might break under the weight of his wanting. His longing for her.

C.J. Carlyon

#13. Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

John Green

#14. sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition.

Estelle Getty

#15. If they break your heart, break their bones

Greyson Chance

#16. The body is soft, beautiful, vulnerable. It's easy to threaten it. It's easy to harm it. It takes next to nothing to cause pain, to draw blood, to break bones. Takes next to nothing to blast a body to bits. It's much harder to protect it, she says, and much more important.

David Almond

#17. Love must wait; it must break one's bones.

James Salter

#18. As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defamation or verbal assault. Ah, the naked leading the blind.

Bryan Oftedahl

#19. ..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

Mark Haddon

#20. Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self defense and I won't go to prison.

Mark Haddon

#21. Try not to scream when I break your bones. It bothers me. You can cry if you want; that's fine."
He burst out laughing. I didn't realize that was a funny statement.
"Got it," he said, trying unsuccessful to cover his grin. "Screaming, no. Crying, yes

Amy Tintera

#22. Hard words will break no bones:
But more than bones are broken
By the inescapable stones
Of fond words left unspoken.

Jan Struther

#23. Whoever had come up with the chant "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" had been an idiot.

Nevada Barr

#24. Sticks and stones and fists CAN break your bones, but it's the words that break your heart.

Mia Sheridan

#25. It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.

David Millar

#26. It's a lot harder to break bones in golf than motocross. But that made me fearless in a way.

Rickie Fowler

#27. Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.

Chuck Palahniuk

#28. They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

George Bernard Shaw

#30. Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.

Moira Fowley-Doyle

#31. "A guy who knows how to dance knows how to fight. A guy who knows how to fight knows how to love. A person who knows how to fight will break bones yet a person who knows how to love will break hearts".

David Arenas Torres

#32. Babies mean death. Babies mark the mistakes in my life. The ones I thought I'd atoned for but now realize still live in my bones, threatening to break me

Sarah Noffke

#33. You live
under the Sign
of the Bear, who flounders through chaos
in his starry blubber:
poor fool,
poor forked branch
of applewood, you will feel all your bones break
over the holy waters you will never drink.

Galway Kinnell

#34. In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

Evel Knievel

#35. But you have to learn to bend a little," said Clary with a yawn. Despite the story's content, the rhythm of Jace's voice had made her sleepy. "Or you'll break." "Not if you're strong enough," said Jace firmly.

Cassandra Clare

#36. I give in to nothing or nobody. Cut me, break my bones, it was all the same.

Rocky Graziano

#37. I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.

Ryan Sheckler

#38. The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.

Ed Sheeran

#39. For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over and over to wreck myself on another human, and always failed. I fail now. For it seems that my sorrow is deep in my bones and I'd have to break every single one to let it out.

Louise Erdrich

#40. To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head

Jean-Paul Sartre

#41. Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones.

Ed Martin

#42. But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have a Swiss Army knife if they hit me.

Mark Haddon

#43. Beck, I think I may actually break through with this one. I think there could be something here. I feel it in my bones." "Maybe that's just osteoporosis.

Anonymous

#44. Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.

Chuck Palahniuk

#45. There's a sob building inside me so immense and powerful it's going to break all my bird bones. It's Judemageddon.

Jandy Nelson

#46. Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts ...

Robert Fulghum

#47. Now sticks 'n' stones'll break ya bones, a little tokin' never hurt no one. Let's toke, toke, toke about it.

Nikola Tesla

#48. But I am not sick, or crazy, or broken.
I am Meda Melange, demon-saint monster girl. I make full-grown men scream in terror. I break bones and drain blood. I turn nightmares into reality.
I am the most powerful creature on earth. I do not wear a leash.

Eliza Crewe

#49. The old saw that "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me" does not, in fact, hold true.

Gerry Spence

#50. Sticks and stones may break my bones
When aimed with careful art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart

Na

#51. Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

Jodi Picoult

#52. Firstly: don't touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. Secondly: master your anger. Thirdly: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through your skin, your bones will shatter, and your heart will break once more.

Mathias Malzieu

#53. Circumstances break mens bones; it has never been shown that they break mens optimism.

G.K. Chesterton

#54. Pain? I know pain at the molecular level... It pulls at my atoms... Sings to me in an alphabet of fear... I am the boiling man... come to break the bones of your sins, meat puppet...

James O'Barr

#55. I can't get his bones
to go down the fucking drain.
I try to stuff the tiny holes,
too tiny for this pain.
I can't get his bones
to break any way for my gain.
Break them back a little too far,
never too far for the sake of sane.

Casey Renee Kiser

#56. Abuse is abuse; Be nice.. Harsh words don't break bones but they often break hearts.

Joseph Simmons

#57. Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

Paul Hoffman

#58. Sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul

Adam Savage

#59. La lingua non ha ossa, ma rompe il dorsol... The tongue has no bones but can break a man's back!

Wally Lamb

#60. Leave no stone unturned. Leave no bone unbroken. Drive your life with care and don't dose off while you do so. If you don't wake up, you are likely miss you way!

Israelmore Ayivor

#61. One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

William J. Clinton

#62. This late dissension grown betwixt the peers
Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love,
And will at last break out into a flame:
As festered members rot but by degree,
Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,
So will this base and envious discord breed.

William Shakespeare

#63. Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

Matthew Henry

#64. Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

Philip Pullman

#65. No phone. She shook her head with frustration at how utterly and completely reliant she was on the thing. Her train left in seven minutes, and running - in heels - was the only way she'd make it. If she didn't fall and break any bones on the way. "The charger!" she cried,

Brenda Rothert

#66. How could I forget the man who can break uncountable bones just in a few seconds.

Waheed Ibne Musa

#67. You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked.
She shook her head.
He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart," he told her, and left.

Cassandra Clare

#68. People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.

Demi Lovato

#69. If silence could break bones, I would shatter right now, into pieces of stomachache and blueprints and desperation.

Hannah Moskowitz

#70. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.

Lauren Oliver

#71. If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes me a little bit higher risk is that if I break my right ankle again, I've got a bunch of screws and plates in there, and that would not be good.

Al Unser

#72. Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you

Stephenie Meyer

#73. Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.

Tim Minchin

#74. Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

Chuck Klosterman

#75. He loved her so much he felt his bones would break. Loving her was like lying in a bed of nettles, and the feel of her skin against his was the only balm, the only time the stinging stopped, while, for her, he was the warm bath she took to stave off the cold waterfall of Boaty's indifference.

Robert Goolrick

#76. Sticks & stones may break your bones & hurtful words can destroy more than you know!

Timothy Pina

#77. God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Mark Buchanan

#78. Only when we break the mirror and climb into our vision,
only when we are the wind together streaming and singing,
only in the dream we become with our bones for spears,
we are real at last
and wake.

Marge Piercy

#79. Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#80. Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#81. She shook my hand, loosely, like Indians do, using only her fingers. Not like those tight grips that white people use to prove something. She touched my hand like she was glad to see me, not like she wanted to break bones.

Sherman Alexie

#82. A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard.

Bruce Lee

#83. I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

Malorie Blackman

#84. After seeing the devastation on the East coast. I've concluded that Sticks and Stone might break our bones. But Mother Nature can really tear up your stuff,

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#85. I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break.

David Levithan

#86. I still skate occasionally but last time I did, at our show in Hanford, I did a 360 frontside varial over our rolled-up banner and broke every damn bone in my body. Ok, I only broke one bone. Well, I didn't break any bones, but I could have!

Jade Puget

#87. A story had no owner ship. A story could break its bones, grow wings, soar out of reach and dive out of sight in the time it took just to draw breath. It meant we weren't walking a cut path. We carved it into existence with
every step.

Roshani Chokshi

#88. Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones ... Words will never, et cetera.

Jim Butcher

#89. Revenge ... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Jeremy Taylor