Best stones & sticks-and-stones Quotes

“Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.”

Thinking Way Believe Can Do Hurt Powerful Stones Sticks Don't Believe Wounds Damage Axioms Really Powerful Sticks And Stones

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

Heart Break Stones Sticks Bones Sticks And Stones

Author:Robert Fulghum

“All snowmen look to the sky, knowing their death will be delivered by the horizon. Before dawn, their life becomes the darkest. The moment before the sun burns all. The Snowmen go mental. Kill or be killed. I only just escaped the violent puddles, the sticks and stones. The broken carrot noses.”

Looks Moments Sun Knowing Sky Broken Stones Sticks Violent Noses Dawn Horizon Carrots Puddles Sticks And Stones Snowman

Author:Craig Stone

“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.”

“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."”

Kids Parent Hurt Break Taught Stones Sticks Bones Hurt Me Sticks 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

“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”

Names Break Stones Sticks Bones Sticks And Stones

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“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.”

“Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.”

Path Genius Stones Sticks Storm Dust Pulling Sticks And Stones Cyclones

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.”

Home Belief Shapes Mountain Stones Roots Mark Sticks Desert Coming Home Rejoice Ancestor Genes Coast Sticks And Stones

Book:No Defense

Source: No Defense

“The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.”

Way Humans Eye Walks Views Company Particular Scene Stones Mark Sticks Absence Nostalgia Familiar Solitary Human Experience Saddest Sticks And Stones

Book:Max

Source: Max

“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.”

Left Leadership Hurt Break Produce Stones Sticks Bones Atmosphere Thrive Toxic Rhetoric Untrue Holistic Interconnected Lunacy Sticks And Stones

Author:Phillip Adams

“Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?”

Today Leadership Tomorrow Stones Sticks Sticks And Stones

Author:Phillip Adams

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.”

May Hours Break Cry Stones Sticks Corners Bones Idle Domestic Violence Sticks And Stones

Author:Eric Idle

“Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means is that each stick is going to be equal to some other sticks and unequal to some other sticks, so equal to the stick on the left maybe but shorter than the stick on its right) the form of equal is going to be just equal, and it won't partake of inequality at all. And it will be the cause of equality in things that are equal, for example, equal sticks and stones.”

Mean Form Left Causes Example Equal Stones Sticks Dialogue Inequality Plato Sticks And Stones

Author:Peter Adamson

“I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.”

Ifs Use Hurt Weapons Stones Claims Sticks Wounds Sticks And Stones

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Year after year. "Please don't make me go [to school]" "You have to go," Kim would say. "It's a new school, make a new start." "Sticks and stones." from Chip. Words will only kill you.”

Years School Please Stones Sticks Chips Kim New Start Sticks And Stones

Author:Julie Anne Peters

“..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.”

Break Stones Sticks Bones Sticks And Stones

Author:Mark Haddon

“It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.”

May Can Do Hurt Break Stones Sticks Bones Bullshit Hurt Me Sticks And Stones

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.”

May Stars Break Stones Sticks Bones Chinese Throwing Dozen Stitches Sticks And Stones

Book:Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files

“I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.”

May Hurt Powerful Talking Break Stones Sticks Bones Hurt Me Sticks And Stones Powerful Words Armpits Noughts And Crosses

Book:Black & White

Source: Black & White

“Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.”

May Break Stones Sticks Bones Bullets Caliber Sticks And Stones

Author:Jim Butcher

“Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.”

Names Break Stones Sticks Bones Quarrels Sticks And Stones

Book:Northern lights

Source: Northern lights

“sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul”

Soul Break Stones Sticks Bones Sticks And Stones

Author:Adam Savage

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can grind and ooze for decades and be re-opened by the quietest whisper.”

May Hurt Break Broken Stones Stronger Sticks Bones Decades Wounds Grind Hurt Me Sticks And Stones

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.”

May Lying Hurt Break Stones Sticks Bones Dirty Hurt Me Mantras Dork Sticks And Stones

Book:The John Green Collection

Source: The John Green Collection

“When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.”

Source: The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story

“People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.”

People May Said Stills Hate Names Hurt Break Havens Stones I Hate Sticks Forgotten Bones Bully Hate You I Hate You Hurt Me Sticks And Stones True Words Words Can Hurt

Author:Demi Lovato

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