“Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics
for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh.
I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me.
The word and the thought are over.”
"They Will Place There Telescreens" (1964), trans. Czesŀaw Miŀosz
Bobo's Metamorphosis (1965)
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George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Jesus, as portrayed in Preface, Difference Between Reader And Spectator
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
Context: I am no mere chance pile of flesh and bone: if I were only that, I should fall into corruption and dust before your eyes. I am the embodiment of a thought of God: I am the Word made flesh: that is what holds me together standing before you in the image of God. … The Word is God. And God is within you. … In so far as you know the truth you have it from my God, who is your heavenly father and mine. He has many names and his nature is manifold. … It is by children who are wiser than their fathers, subjects who are wiser than their emperors, beggars and vagrants who are wiser than their priests, that men rise from being beasts of prey to believing in me and being saved. … By their fruits ye shall know them. Beware how you kill a thought that is new to you. For that thought may be the foundation of the kingdom of God on earth.
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Vol. I, p. 267
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 8.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer
p 233, describing his swim at Deception Island, Antarctica (2005)
Achieving The Impossible (2010)
“sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.”
Eric Idle (1943) British comedian, actor, singer and writer
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
The Jatka (From the Attainment of the Buddhaship. Also is in the Nirvana Sutta.)
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“Time to be the sun and send forth flesh to heal the bones of time.”
Aberjhani (1957) author
(Time to be the Sun, p. 86).
Book Sources, ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (2008)