Bone Quotes

Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. (Jack London)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
I don't get why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other bone in my body is broken too. View quote
Jared Leto
When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone. View quote
Melissa McCarthy
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains blends yearning and repulsion and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. View quote
George Eliot
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. View quote
Edmund Burke
Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done. View quote
Henry Fielding
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families. View quote
Nathan Deal
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries. (Nathan Deal)
Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone. View quote
Michael Landon
My truths are all foreknown, This anguish self-revealed. I'm naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin – this is bone – all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality. View quote
Max Beckmann
You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body. View quote
Geoffrey Rush
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. View quote
Jessamyn West
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone. View quote
Henry James
Theres nothing sexy about skin and Bone, Urgh, you gotta have some junk in the trunk. (Amy Lee)
FEMA? I always thought it was a bone here in your ass. View quote
Lewis Black
The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone. View quote
Tom Waits
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [indicating her body], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone. View quote
Jodi Picoult