quotations about bones
Today I speak to my bones as I would speak to a dog. I want to go up the stairs, I tell them. Up, up, up, with one leg dragging. Is the ache deep in the bones, this elusive pain? Does that mean it will rain? Good bones, good bones, I coax, wondering how to reward them; if they will sit up for me, beg, roll over, do one more trick, once more. There. We're at the top. Good bones! Good bones! Keep on going.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Good Bones and Simple Murders
O ye dry bones, hear the word of the lord.
BIBLE
Ezekiel 37:4
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
BIBLE
Psalms 22:17
If a dog's prayers were answered, it would rain bones.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
They have made no bones at it.
RICHARD SHACKLOCK
Hatcher of Heresies
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 14:30
I have a bone in my throat and cannot speak.
ERASMUS
Adagia
I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my bones into feathers, but my body's recognition that soon I would be leaving this place I had inhabited for one year, this place made entirely of grief.
ANNE SPOLLEN
The Shape of Water
As it is, little folks' bones are like the tough young boughs on a tree, that bend sooner than break; but old bones are like dry branches, and cannot bend without snapping asunder.
EMILY COULDEN
"A New Puzzle", Good Things, 1878
What this country needs are more men with less bone in the head, and more bone in the back.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Tempest
Bones for those who come late.
LATIN PROVERB
Bones bring meat to town.
THOMAS FULLER
Profane State
The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.
VERA NAZARIAN
The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
The girl was very pretty and her body was like a clear mountain river of skin and muscle flowing over rocks of bone and hidden nerves.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN
Trout Fishing in America
It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in the peach-blossom complexion.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Conduct of Life
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.
JEFFERSON SMITH
Strange Places
Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King John
All we are is all alone
Man is made of flesh and bone
BON JOVI
"Flesh and Bone"