Sticks And Bones Quotes

#1. In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.

Cynthia Rylant

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Anthony Liccione

#8. 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

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

Philip Pullman

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. 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

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

Tim Minchin

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

Philip G. Zimbardo

#14. Think of music like you think of eating. There's meat and potatoes, very hearty basic comfort food that sticks to your bones and nourishes you. Then there's fluff. Chips, dessert, junk food. Stuff that won't make you healthy but you prefer because it's quick and there.

Jennifer Laurens

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Jim Butcher

#18. 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

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

Mia Sheridan

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Mark Haddon

#23. 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

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

Tahereh Mafi

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

Estelle Getty

#26. 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

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

The Notorious B.I.G.

#28. 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

#29. 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

#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. 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

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

Eric Idle

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

James Howe