Welcome to Bone Quotes, a curated collection of insightful and inspiring quotes dedicated to the topic of bones. Bones, the sturdy framework of the human body, have long fascinated scientists, artists, and philosophers alike. From serving as the structural support for our bodies to symbolizing resilience and strength, bones hold a significant place in our understanding of life and mortality.
Throughout history, bones have been the subject of fascination and contemplation, with their intricate structure and enduring nature serving as a source of inspiration for countless individuals. Whether pondering the mysteries of anatomy, reflecting on the passage of time, or exploring themes of mortality and resilience, quotes about bones offer profound insights into the human experience. Within this collection, you will find a diverse array of quotations that capture the essence of bones, their significance in culture, and their symbolic power. Explore these quotes to gain new perspectives and find inspiration in the enduring strength of the human skeleton. Now, delve into the world of bone quotes below and discover words that resonate with you.
I have degenerative bone disease and I walk with a cane. And when I wrote Six of Crows,’ I went out on tour, and I met a lot of readers who would say, ‘Oh, I don’t know why, but I pictured Kaz as being an old man at first.’ And I thought, of course you did, because the only people we see with mobility aids in media and in culture are old. Leigh Bardugo
Something like ‘Rust and Bone’ would be a dream. Very pared down. ‘Orphan Black’ is such a challenge. I just need something that isn’t as full-on intense as that. Tatiana Maslany
I have a vast ‘bone pile’ of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical. Maxine Kumin
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. Jack London
Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger – they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered. Warren Farrell
In Shadow and Bone,’ Alina’s race is never specified. But that entire book is basically built on a white default. My life has never been entirely white or entirely straight, so I had to really step back and question why I’d chosen to write my first novel that way. Leigh Bardugo
I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it’s ‘Beasts’ or ‘Winter’s Bone,’ wound up in the Oscars lineup. Damien Chazelle
Ah, but it’s nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody’s throat. Jack Levine
I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With ‘Flesh and Spirit’ and ‘Breath and Bone,’ because I was thinking of a world on the brink of a dark age, I began with the sense of Roman Britain. But I purposely set the geography to match something other than Britain – which has been overdone. Carol Berg
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. Arthur Conan Doyle
I don’t have a hate bone in my body. Tim Hardaway
When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone. Melissa McCarthy
Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass. Ann Richards
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Henry David Thoreau
In ‘Winter’s Bone,’ it’s literally the director and the camera operator. That’s it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people. Bill Hader
High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density. Joel Fuhrman
People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge. Masayoshi Son
The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism. Ferdinand Marcos
I’ve always been unhappy with my teeth. I’ve lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I’ve got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated. Kate O’Mara
A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone. Alice Walker
I am from Des Moines, Iowa – not even the city but out in the country. I don’t have a lot of trappings, I think, in my personality. I’m just a simple person with a silly bone. Cloris Leachman
It doesn’t take a bruise or a broken bone for a child to be a victim of domestic violence. Kids who witness domestic violence are victims, too. Amy Klobuchar
How did I go from ‘Menace II Society’ to ‘Love Jones?’ There wasn’t a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog’s body. Larenz Tate
I don’t have a political bone in my body. Joan Allen
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. Geoffrey Rush
At birth, we are like cartilage – soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born. Iyanla Vanzant
In interior decorating, the pig’s actually quite there. It’s used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper, bone glue is actually the glue between the sand and the paper. And then in paintbrushes, hairs are used because, apparently, they’re very suitable for making paintbrushes because of their hard-wearing nature. Christien Meindertsma
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I’m writing episode seven now and couldn’t tell you what happens in episode eight. Aaron Sorkin
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. Bob Wells
After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing ‘Girl in Hyacinth Blue.’ The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful. Susan Vreeland
I really like Rag & Bone jeans; I wear a lot of those. Merritt Patterson
I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it. Kylie Bax
The dog that trots about finds a bone. Golda Meir
I have a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), which has affected my growth and bone strength. In short, people with the kind of OI I have generally experience hundreds of fractures in their lifetime and use wheelchairs for mobility. Stella Young
I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, ‘Dead bird, dead bird.’ It didn’t feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it. Rza
It’s a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone. Bobby Heenan
And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We’re lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product. Freddie Mercury
It felt like 10 years, but I was actually in treatment for three-and-a-half years. I finally finished in April. Two years ago, I had a bone marrow transplant from my brother, which saved my life, so I feel really grateful. Suleika Jaouad
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. Jessamyn West
There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke. Evel Knievel
People do really well on space missions, but it’s the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It’s those things that we need to figure out. Scott Kelly
Soon enough I would learn the specific diagnosis: myelodysplastic syndrome, a disorder of the bone marrow. In my case, the disease growing inside me had morphed into acute myeloid leukemia. I would need intensive chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant to save my life. Suleika Jaouad
Everyone who knows me knows that I don’t have a prejudiced bone in my body. Brett Ratner
Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world. Bunker Roy
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show. Andrew Wyeth
Bone Thugs is one of my favorite rap groups of all time. I listened to them all the time when I was a kid. Lil Durk
It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn’t have to bone up on any of it. June Lockhart
In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all. Neri Oxman
I’ve never broken a bone in my body, even though I’ve done some extreme things. Kellan Lutz
Diet sodas contain a chemical sweetener called Aspartame, which is a potent neurotoxin and endocrine disrupter. Another key ingredient of soft drinks is phosphoric acid, which is added to give it ‘bite.’ Phosphoric acid is well known to cause tooth rot, bone loss, osteoporosis and gastro intestinal distress. Prashant Bhushan
My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about. Shakira
I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment. Chris Cornell
Youth and health are supposed to go hand in hand. And it was only when I got to a point where I was so weak, it was a struggle to walk up and down the stairs that I found myself in an emergency room. And within 24 hours I was on a plane back home to upstate New York, and I got the bone marrow biopsy that led to my actual diagnosis. Suleika Jaouad
Dozens of chemotherapy treatments and one bone marrow transplant later, I wish I could say that I’ve mastered the art of not working. But there are still days when I wake up feeling simultaneously restless and bored. Suleika Jaouad
I have five tattoos. One says conquer, another Svatantra, a third mind over matter. I have a heart on my collar bone, and another tattoo saying Always Mommy’s Girl. I got these tattoos in different places at different times in my life and they all mean something to me. Ananya Birla
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. Meredith Monk
Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century. Alan J. Heeger
There are two Mustafa Kemals: one is I, the flesh and bone Mustafa Kemal… the scond Mustafa Kemal I cannot describe with the word ‘I.’ That Mustafa Kemal is not I – it is ‘We.’ That Mustafa Kemal is the enlightened and warrior collectivity that is striving for the new thought, the new life, and the Great Ideal on every corner of this country. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips. Karen McDougal
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got. Will Rogers
This is the pain pacemaker. I’ve got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It’s tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know? Jerry Lewis
America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth’s skeleton. Ellsworth Huntington
You have to remember that Shadow and Bone’ was the first book I sold. And it was, in fact, the first book I ever finished writing, despite many attempts before that to finish a novel. And when I was writing it, I didn’t know if anybody was going to buy one book, let alone all three. Leigh Bardugo
My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday. Gisele Bundchen
Today, my brother and I share almost identical DNA, the result of a successful bone marrow transplant I had last April using his healthy stem cells. But Adam and I couldn’t be more different. Suleika Jaouad
You must remember that Endora is basically a good witch. She really doesn’t have a wicked bone in her magic finger. It’s just that she hain’t the patience to endure human follies and foibles. If you’re human you’re a slave. That’s the way she sees it. She’s a genius and she demands that quality in people as well as witches and warlocks. Agnes Moorehead
I love every bone in their heads. Eugene O’Neill
My column launched while I was in the bone marrow transplant unit. And I remember waking up the next morning and opening my inbox and seeing hundreds of emails from strangers all around the world. Suleika Jaouad
Mars once was wet and fertile. It’s now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth. Neil deGrasse Tyson
I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain. Mike Tyson
I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called ‘Rust & Bone’ with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I’m truly sad that it’s over! Matthias Schoenaerts
Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest. Charles Spurgeon
Find something you love to do. Work it to the bone. And you’ll be successful. John Schnatter
I learned that Yao Ming broke his navicular bone like five days before the 2009 draft. From that moment on, all I thought about was going from zero stars to one star. How do you do it? Sam Hinkie
I’ve broken probably every major bone in my body. Donald Trump, Jr.
As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that’s what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic. Pete Townshend
I don’t have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people. Paloma Faith
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. Andrew Jackson
The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We’re like the little toe that can be cut off. Don Winslow
I don’t have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes. Karen Duffy
Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn’t think about ‘Harry Potter’ when I wrote ‘The Bone Season.’ Samantha Shannon
There was a disc and two bone spurs pressing on my spinal cord. If anyone’s had spinal cord problems or disc injuries in their neck, they’d understand what I went through. Tito Ortiz
You can teach anybody wrestling moves, hopefully, if they have an athletic bone in their body. However, the ones that are going to make money and be different are the ones with personality. Mickie James
I’ve been writing since I was about thirteen but didn’t start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote ‘The Bone Season’ at nineteen. Samantha Shannon
I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I’m still sort of an invalid now. Billy Graham
Just a few years ago, at the age of 22, I learned I had an aggressive form of leukemia. I needed intensive chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant to save my life. Back then, my doctors told me that I had a 35 percent chance of surviving my transplant. Suleika Jaouad
There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like ‘Down to the Bone,’ you have the opportunity to be of service. Vera Farmiga
What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm. Rodney Dangerfield
The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about. Andy Behrman
When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn’t behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger. Giovanni Guareschi
A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don’t think you can develop a funny bone – you either have it or you don’t. And by the way – when you get it, we don’t know it. Carl Reiner
I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family. Ellen G. White
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. Reba McEntire
The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis. Stephen Jay Gould
There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it’s like being 900 meters deep in the ocean. Bill Nye
I think it’s going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density. John L. Phillips
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens. Jack Horner
I don’t have a musical bone in my body. Trudie Styler
We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in. Vidal Sassoon
Anyone can wear glitter, even a woman in her 60s. It’s all about techniques. Instead of applying glitter all over the face, you can just add a little to the inner corner of your eyes or on your brow bone, or even on your Cupid’s bow. It just adds this magical element to your makeup. Michelle Phan
