Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Words Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same.

Joanna Lumley

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

Na

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

Adam Savage

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Tim Minchin

#13. And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

Eddie Murray

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

Timothy Pina

#15. First thing you learn wandering the long roads, kid. Everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story.
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Sebastien De Castell

#16. Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well.

Ken Hom

#17. I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.

Halsey

#18. How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

Albert Einstein

#19. The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic. They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting - it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people.

Ron Schiller

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

Jim Butcher

#21. 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

#22. Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.

Rumi

#23. I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

Helena Bonham Carter

#24. If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

Norman Ralph Augustine

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Mia Sheridan

#27. There are so many reasons why I should not kiss you right now. Believe me when I tell you that only moments ago those reasons played out in my mind, but for the life of me, at this very minute, I cannot recall even one of them, Kathel said.

Madison Thorne Grey

#28. Never was a Family more insistent on learning one another's movements than were the Bunch. All of them volubly knew, or indignantly desired to know, where all the others had been every minute of the week.

Sinclair Lewis

#29. Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way.

Frank Lampard

#30. The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want.

T. Harv Eker

#31. In this candid and rounded memoir, Baksi answers the questions a multitude of Larsson's fans have already asked about his upbringing; the recurring death threats; his insomnia and his vices; his feminism

Stieg Larsson

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Eric Idle