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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
ROBERT FULGHUM Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts
ROBERT FULGHUM Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones...
ROBERT FULGHUM Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.
TIM MINCHIN Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.
JAMES HOWE Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will break my heart.
LINDA EASTMAN MCCARTNEY Sticks and stoned break our bones. Words and actions break our hearts.
SARA STRAIN Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.
STEPHEN FRY Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
ENGLISH PROVERB Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me
ENGLISH PROVERB Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.
JIM BUTCHER Sticks and stones will break your bones if you ever try to cut me with your words.
TAYLOR PARSONS Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can shatter my soul.
UNKNOWN Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can hurt like hell.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for ho...
ERIC IDLE Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me', said some idiot who,
1. Di...
OREO QUEEN Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.
PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me!
AJ MCLEAN Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition.
ESTELLE GETTY Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you…unless you believe them. Then...
CHARLES F. GLASSMAN Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.
TAHEREH MAFI Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your fe...
UNKNOWN It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bo...
LAUREN OLIVER Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can also hurt me.
Stones and sticks break only...
RUBY REDFORT I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the sayin...
MALORIE BLACKMAN My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always ...
MICHAEL FRANTI Sticks and stones may break my bones’, as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words ...
JOANNE HARRIS Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually ...
STEPHEN FRY Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your fe...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay a...
MOïRA FOWLEY-DOYLE dont break hearts, just bones
JERAMEE PLOOG Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea...
JODI PICOULT Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeated...
INGA MUSCIO Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence ...
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Dancing to the sounds of trees and stones and slow minutes ticking in our hearts and bones.
JAY WOODMAN I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones.
ANTHONY LICCIONE I break orbital bones.
CONOR MCGREGOR Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially...
HUGH ROSS All I can tell you is this. Some hearts break from grief some from joy. Some even break from love. B...
CATHERINE M. WILSONSON The state of our words will ultimately showcase the state of our hearts.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) a tongue has no bones but it is strong enough to break the heart so be carefull about ur words
IRINA SWART Be patient and you will finally win, for a soft tongue can break hard bones. (Proverbs 28:13)
BIBLE We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not ...
SERA BREAK They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my...
MAHATMA GANDHI A phrase 'I love you' is easy to say through our mouths but hard to say in our hearts. Love is not s...
SIMON MASHALLA Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose...
DAVID WHYTE I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with stic...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with st...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with stic...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I don't know what weapons will be used in world war three, but in world war four people will use sti...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Very well, permit me, if you will, on this night. To break your hearts once more.
STEVEN ERIKSON Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with stic...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they d...
STEPHEN KING Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thou...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah,...
ANNE LAMOTT Our hope is that all the kids will come out and help us break this world record.
CHRISTINE PARKER What has been is what it seems will be unless we can break our conditioning by realizing our conditi...
JAMES DYE They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obed...
MAHATMA GANDHI Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and wit...
BIBLE Break hearts, not promises.
JOHN GREEN We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy han...
DAVID SEDARIS The heart will break, but broken live on.
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The heart will break, but broken live on.
LORD BYRON We are going to break all previous spending and fundraising records. It will break the record for th...
KIM ALEXANDER The one, who doesn’t break your heart, will break your balls.
M.F. MOONZAJER No, you should stay right where you are, or my estranged brother and I will settle our difference by...
RACHEL VINCENT Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break tog...
C.S. LEWIS Don't you think that says something? We affirm the personal sacrifice and courage of the troops ther...
DAVE MARTIN Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will f...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Hearts, they break for a reason...Reconstruction
VERONICA PINEDA Do all hearts break the same way?
VANSHIKA DHYANI I've felt sometimes like I'd be less trouble if I'd just sit back and be quiet. But dreams are too i...
BRITTNEY RYAN Human making is our mission, but if you break the very soul of the would-be humans, then there will ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR I don't think the constitution will make or break Iraq. What will make or break Iraq is the coalitio...
FOUAD AJAMI Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. Yo...
JODI PICOULT A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you br...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
JOHNSON Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly...
SEAN COVEY Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Honesty will never break you.
KATE HUDSON There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it...
JOSEPH CONRAD Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at...
ELIZABETH BOWEN If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes ...
AL UNSER Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid o...
PETER BONDRA Love of any kind will one day break our heart, To love is to lose, But to carry a memory in our mind...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
WENDELL BERRY My feeling is that an upside break will be a head fake and a downside break will lead to a major dec...
BERNIE SCHAEFFER I think if our new direction in all our relationships is friendship, compassion, and enjoyment, we w...
EVAN SUTTER We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful...
SHANNON L. ALDER She was my enemy but her words would break your heart. She is a Vietnamese Anne Frank. I know this d...
FRED WHITEHURST Love will cost you dearly.
And it will break your heart.
But in the end, it will save the ...
SARAH THEBARGE Yeah, I just don't break. I don't. And there's only one person I know who's a better...
OSCAR NUNEZ If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chi...
HERMANN HESSE Clearly we've made progress, but we will not break even by 2007.
DON HUME It will be a strong fence. People won't be able to break through our fence as quickly as they can br...
CARMEN MERCER It will just be a lot of fun to get together with all our classmates. Just a little break away from ...
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ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.
ROBERT KENNEDY Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividi...
ROBERT KENNEDY Circumstances of crimes vary. So do motives. And so do prospects for rehabilitation. The number of i...
ROBERT KENNEDY If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...
ROBERT KENNEDY Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community ge...
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our lear...
ROBERT KENNEDY All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our t...
ROBERT KENNEDY We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustrati...
ROBERT KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes...
ROBERT KRAFT Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
ROBERT KRAFT We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
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