Quotes About Sticks And Stones

#1. 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

#2. Sticks and stones can break a man,
but words can destroy him.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. and behind them came the women, and then the children with sticks and stones in their hands. There was a line of fury on the ground, slithering forth. Someone

Alice Hoffman

#4. 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

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

Na

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

Adam Savage

#7. Sticks and stones build strong houses

Melody Carstairs

#8. I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones.

Anthony Liccione

#9. 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

#10. the Kauravas and the Pandavas turned from demi-gods into cave men, the great war reduced to a tribal feud fought with sticks and stones.

William Dalrymple

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

Philip Pullman

#12. If all you have to fight with is sticks and stones,
then that's what you fight with.

Bo Demont

#13. 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

#14. Someone once said that World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons and the next war with sticks and stones.

Robert F. Kennedy

#15. Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

Plato

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

Tim Minchin

#17. I'm not insane, I'm neurologically variant," she snapped back. "Sticks and stones, asshole.

Mira Grant

#18. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

Mary-Louise Parker

#19. There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.

Kate Wilhelm

#20. I know not with what weapons World War Three will be fought. But I know that World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones.

Dianne Duvall

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

Philip G. Zimbardo

#22. 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

#23. Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life.

Craig Groeschel

#24. Year after year. "Please don't make me go [to school]" "You have to go," Kim would say. "It's a new school, make a new start." "Sticks and stones." from Chip. Words will only kill you.

Julie Anne Peters

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

Jim Butcher

#26. Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

James Howe

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

Eric Idle

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Because that saying about sticks and stones is a pack of lies. Unkind words hurt more than anything else. You end up carrying them around in your head, wondering if they're true. Bruises fade, but self-doubt follows you forever.

Kate Lattey

#33. Each one of them would have gladly done the task, but all they could do now was watch and wait as sticks and stones did their best to batter Ty to his knees in those cold waves.

Madeleine Urban

#34. 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

#35. I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family.

Tim Hardaway

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

The Notorious B.I.G.

#37. Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

Phillip Adams

#38. 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

#39. Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.

Tahereh Mafi

#40. Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.

Tracy Lawrence

#41. 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

#42. Eldric wore his lazy lion's smile. He didn't mind what he was called. He was a sticks-and-stones sort of person.

Franny Billingsley

#43. 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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Mia Sheridan

#46. 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

#47. 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

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

Mark Haddon

#49. 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

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

Estelle Getty

#51. Let them speak as lewdly as they list of me ... as long as they do not hit me, what am I the worse?

Thomas More

#52. I don't need a trumpet for you to know I'm coming. I simply arrive.

Z.E. Frey

#53. Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.

Tamora Pierce

#54. Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.

Sumi

#55. The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

Robert Louis Stevenson