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Bones Quotes - Page 4

You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2025, Library of Alexandria

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.918, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

William Blake, “Proverbs Of Hell (Excerpt From The Marriage Of Heaven And H”

This planet has rejuvenated itself over and over again. Its species are just witnesses. [Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it tires of us. And all that will be left are the bones.

"Seth Green Shares His Secrets of Financial Success as Unbroke Premieres". Interview with Andrea Chalupa, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2009.

I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.

Private Eye, No. 1169, October 2006.

Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.70, Simon and Schuster