The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. — Elizabeth I
What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh. — Aesop
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone. — Victor Hugo
If someone throws stones at you, throw back bread. — Filipino Proverbs
With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them. — Paul Eldridge
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. — American Proverbs
If a stone thrown upward hits you, don’t take offense. — Filipino Proverbs
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones. — Sachin Tendulkar
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Throwing Rocks Quotes
You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun! — Roddy Piper
Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard. — Jentezen Franklin
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! — Kurt Cobain
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them. — Vladimir Nabokov
I’m the type of guy to throw rocks at the ground and miss. — Jake Paul
I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork. — Irving Brecher
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that. — Don Murray
The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear. — Carl Hubbell
I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages. — Charles Spurgeon
I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick. — Muhammad Ali
I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. — Bernard Goldberg
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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. — Demi Lovato
Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell. — Chuck Palahniuk
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches. — Jim Butcher
Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit. — James Howe
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts. — Robert Fulghum
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. — Malorie Blackman
Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker. — The Notorious B.I.G.
Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera. — Jim Butcher
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. — English Proverbs
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it. — Randall Munroe
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. — Stephen Fry
sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul — Adam Savage
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. — Craig Stone
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. — Katherine Cecil Thurston
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. — Kate Wilhelm
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you. — Philip Zimbardo
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole. — Plato
I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. 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. — Mary-Louise Parker
My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me. — Michael Franti
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. — Albert Einstein
..and only sticks and stones can break my bones. — Mark Haddon
'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . . — Benjamin Franklin
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. — Neil Gaiman
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." — William J. Clinton
Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two. — Tracy Lawrence
Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie. — John Green
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. — Julie Anne Peters
Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. — Unknown
Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart. — Phyllis Mcginley
Modern communication has progressed from sticks and stones to clicks and tones. — Daniel Evans
Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that? — Phillip Adams
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. — Phillip Adams
Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface,not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil's poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world. — Henry David Thoreau
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. — Lauren Conrad
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the sun and the stars, sticks, stones, and rivers are obsessed with his fate. He is busy all the time in a ritual designed to propitiate the abounding jealousies of nature. For his world is magical and capricious, the simplest thing is occult. — Walter Lippmann
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. — Mary-Louise Parker
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. — Albert Einstein
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