Sticks And Stones May Break Quotes

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

The Notorious B.I.G.

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

James Howe

#3. 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

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

Tim Minchin

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Na

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

Tracy Lawrence

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Jim Butcher

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

Philip G. Zimbardo

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

Timothy Pina

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

Philip Pullman

#17. 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

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

Adam Savage

#19. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. 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

#22. Now sticks 'n' stones'll break ya bones, a little tokin' never hurt no one. Let's toke, toke, toke about it.

Nikola Tesla

#23. 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

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Mia Sheridan

#26. 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

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

Mark Haddon

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

Estelle Getty

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Eric Idle