“History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.” HandsHurtHistoryGenerationsOffersBonesGrandchildrenPosterityMarrowPrevious Generations Author:Nikolay Chernyshevsky
“I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.” WantFeelsProcessHurtBreakPlanetsBonesWant MeJust LiveSkateboarding Author:Ryan Sheckler
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.” IfsBelieveMayLongWholeParentHurtBreakHellTeacherEffectsHusbandStonesPropertySticksDeedsBonesDoctrineSinnerPriestsLastingArticlesAdagesUpbringingHurt MePlausibleObnoxiousLong LastingSticks And Stones Author:Richard Dawkins
“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."” KidsParentHurtBreakTaughtStonesSticksBonesHurt MeSticks And Stones Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999
“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.” IdeasSchoolLawActorsSportsHurtCitiesPlayerSonBrokenGrewDadBasketballGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolBaseballRaisedMy DadBonesCoachesNo IdeaTexasCampsRoyalCollarsCardinalsBaseball PlayerKansasBasketball CoachArkansasKansas CityGot HurtTraining Camp Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go, Lauren, It doesn't matter' ... [I] realized I had to stop worrying about what other people think. The next day I got a tattoo on my lower back that says 'sticks and stones', because they may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” PeopleThinkingMayMatterCertainNextFeltHurtBreakWorryMomStonesSticksMy MomBonesI RealizedReputationTattooNext DayAttackingLet It GoHurt MeStop WorryingLaurenSticks And Stones Author:Lauren Conrad
“You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.” ThinkingBodyEyePainGuyHurtTearsMinesBrokenLowsBallsGolfBonesThresholdGolf BallBroken BonePain Threshold Author:Evel Knievel
“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.” LeftLeadershipHurtBreakProduceStonesSticksBonesAtmosphereThriveToxicRhetoricUntrueHolisticInterconnectedLunacySticks And Stones Author:Phillip Adams
“People are seeing me as the guy who wants to get hurt, who wants to break a bone, get bruises. And that's how it was growing up with six brothers. I got beat up, and I beat up people.” PeopleWantGuyHurtBreakGrowing UpGrowingSeeingBrotherSixBeatsBonesBruises Author:Kellan Lutz