Quotes about bone
A collection of quotes on the topic of bone, likeness, time, body.
Quotes about bone
"In Blackwater Woods"
American Primitive (1983)
Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus

“I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.”
Source: The Bell Jar
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Quoted by Rollo H. Myers (1968). Erik Satie, p.135. New York: Dover.
See also Socrate for the context of this quote.
General quotes

As quoted in "Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams" in Roda Viva - Entrevista (13 November 2007)

Neville Cardus The Delights of Music (London: Victor Gollancz, 1966) p. 90.
Criticism

Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose in Vijayaprasara

“I don’t get why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other bone in my body is broken too. ”

“I am a Russian, Russian, Russian, to the marrow of my bones.”
quoted in Geoffrey Hindley, The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music (1982) ISBN 0896731014

Ci-Gît (1947).

“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

“Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

The Circus Animals' Desertion, III
Last Poems (1936-1939)

“[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.”
Source: I Hunt Killers

“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains

"Confession" in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, 2013
Variant: Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

“Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!”
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 113

Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant

“And softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.”

Sahih Bukhari Volume 001, Book 011, Hadith Number 617.
Sunni Hadith

François Quesnay in letter to Mirabeau (Archives Nationales, Ms. 779, 4 bis, p.2 note); as cited in: Richard Van Den Berg and Albert Steenge. "Tableaux and Systèmes. Early French Contributions to Linear Production Models." Cahiers d'économie Politique/Papers in Political Economy 2 (2016): 11-30.

St. 1
In The Seven Woods (1904), Adam's Curse http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1431/

“I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones…”
Valedictory address to the University of Oxford (1959)

From a Just for Laughs appearance in a parody of the popular Molson "I Am Canadian" commercials (21 July 2007) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1648058156561008324&q=i+am+canadian.

An Acre of Grass http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1438/, st. 2
Last Poems (1936-1939)

Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

Twenty-Six Books on Animals [De animalibus libri XXVI]; cited in: Plinio Prioreschi (1996) A History of Medicine: Medieval Medicine. p. 94.

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight

“it wont be long now It won't be long
till earth is barren as the moon
and sapless as a mumbled bone”
archy and mehitabel (1927), what the ants are saying

“The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.”
Of Dice
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings

“In a shared fish, there are no bones.”
Freeman (1948), p. 157

12 October 1492; This entire passage is directly quoted from Columbus in the summary by Bartolomé de Las Casas
Journal of the First Voyage

“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.”
As quoted in The Book of Quotes (1979) by Barbara Rowes, p. 164

Of "Inspector Kobold", a spectre
Canto 3, "Scarmoges"
Phantasmagoria (1869)

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913)

Knox College Commencement Address (4 June 2005) http://www.knox.edu/x9803.xml
2005
Interview for the Academy of Achievement, 1999

Notes in a copy of Jean-Baptiste Morin's "Famous and ancient problems of the earth's motion or rest, yet to be solved" (published 1631), as quoted in The Crime of Galileo (1976) by Giorgio De Santillana, p. 167
Other quotes

“But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,
My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.”
Reconciliation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1568/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
Context: Some may have blamed you that you took away
The verses that could move them on the day
When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind
With lightning, you went from me, and I could find
Nothing to make a song about but kings,
Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things
That were like memories of you--but now
We'll out, for the world lives as long ago;
And while we're in our laughing, weeping fit,
Hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit.
But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,
My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.

“A stroke with the edges, though made with ever so much force, seldom kills, as the vital parts of the body are defended both by the bones and armor; on the contrary a stab, though it penetrates but two inches, is generally fatal.”
Caesa enim, quouis impetu ueniat, non frequenter interficit, cum et armis uitalia defendantur et ossibus; at contra puncta duas uncias adacta mortalis est.
Book 1
De Re Militari (also Epitoma Rei Militaris), Book I, "The Selection and Training of New Levies"

“He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone.”
A Prayer For Old Age http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1423/, st. 1.
A Full Moon in March (1935)
Context: God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone.

Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch.V

As quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192
“if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”
Source: Revolutionary Road

“Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;”
Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: Summer Island

Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 14.
Source: The Wealth of Nations