To succeed in life, you need three things a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
— Reba McEntire
Massive Wishbone quotations
Dream big . . . don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous... keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don't forget to laugh and enjoy the journey.
The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
We need a backbone, not a wishbone.
Backbone beats wishbone every time.
The wishbone will never replace the backbone.
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them.
And its snap split the world in two.
You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?
Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
Get a backbone, not a wishbone.
A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone.
You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.
The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.