Top 15 Quotes About Breaking Bones
#1. The Prisoner's Wife echoes Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones in the urgency in which it reminds us of the possibility of love even amidst the ruins. This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book.
Junot Diaz
#2. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.
Ambrose Bierce
#3. I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.
Amy Tintera
#4. Your existence depends on what you have, not what you are.
Vinita Kinra
#5. Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.
Tahereh Mafi
#6. I don't convince nobody of nothing. You take me or leave me just the way I am! But I ain't changing for you or nobody else and I ain't faking either, and if you think breaking my bones one by one is going to accomplish a thing besides, like, breaking my bones, good luck with that!
Karen Marie Moning
#8. History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
#9. People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures than we have. They know we have a focused strategy. They know we have a budget of $150 million a year. And they know we're ready for a fight.
Wayne Pacelle
#10. I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them for another forty minutes or so, go home and chain myself to the desk a little before 9 A.M., and try not to be distracted until I hear my son plunge through the front door at about 3 P.M.
Geraldine Brooks
#11. Humility isn't as much a character trait as an action. We must clothe ourselves with it. We choose to wear it or we don't. If God has to humble us, it's too late - and that's going to be a bad day. We all have to demonstrate the humility of Christ in our actions.
Ross Parsley
#12. 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
#13. If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath
#14. A brave man is always frightened three times by a lion; when he first sees his track, when he first hears him roar and when he first confronts him.
Ernest Hemingway,
#15. The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.
Guy Maddin
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