Quotes About A Wishbone

#1. What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.

Brian Ulrich

#2. Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

Vikram Seth

#3. You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

Caroline Myss

#4. For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

Sarah Weeks

#5. 'Oh, no,' Heilyn said, sidling a little closer. 'If I was being shameless, I would have said I was like a wishbone and you needed to spread my legs to make your dreams come true.'

Amy Rae Durreson

#6. The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Tommy Douglas

#7. I take writing very seriously. There's a lot of responsibility in putting blood in the veins of fictional characters.

Brooklyn Hudson

#8. But always, it has been truly said, the savage is talkative about his mythology and taciturn about his religion.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

Joyce Meyer

#12. The less you 'think' you know, the greater your ability to learn and grow.

Hal Elrod

#13. The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H. Boetcker

#14. When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

Patricia Cornwell

#15. Dream big ... don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous ... keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don't forget to laugh and enjoy the journey.

Charles R. Swindoll

#16. The wishbone will never replace the backbone

Will Henry

#17. I feel like I will split like a wishbone, but who will get their wish?

Laura Bradley Rede

#18. A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Robert Frost

#19. Get a backbone, not a wishbone,

Caroline Myss

#20. When we are a comfort and encouragement to others, we are sometimes surprised at how it comes back to us many times over.

Billy Graham

#21. Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them.
And its snap split the world in two.

Laini Taylor

#22. Clerres is the heart of the world, and the heartbeat of the world must always be steady.

Robin Hobb

#23. How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter?

Bel Kaufman

#24. The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

Gena Rowlands

#25. Left wing ... Right wing ... it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone?

Jan Struther

#26. Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

Ronald Reagan

#27. Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford

#28. Love is a wishbone cracked in two.

Mirjana M. Inalman

#29. It is not as if I want to be a princess. Since I was four years old I've spent every birthday, shooting star, wishbone, and lost eyelash wishing I did not have to be a princess!

Mili Fay

#30. Years later I read a statement that said, "A tot of people have a wishbone, but they don't have a backbone." I thought, That's the truth. Wishing won't get us anything. We have got to dig in and do whatever we have to do to get

Joyce Meyer

#31. Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.

Reba McEntire

#33. We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#34. Tell me where she is, or I'll snap your neck like a wishbone!

Lisa Kleypas

#35. I feel sorry for all the men in my future 'cause they'll all be held up to Julien (Grenier/WISHBONE protagonist)and I doubt any of them will cut it.

Brooklyn Hudson