Sticks And Stones Quotes

“Let them speak as lewdly as they list of me...as long as they do not hit me, what am I the worse?”
― Sir Thomas More

“My wife has made up Ty’s old bedroom for you,” he told him in a low voice as Ty and Mara argued over the merits of the couch cushions versus the rocks out back.
“Oh Christ.” Zane laughed, falling back in his chair. “He won’t let me forget this. Losing his bed to me.”
“Well,” Earl said with a sigh, “it’s either that or fight his mama over it.” He sat and watched Ty and Mara for a moment, sipping at his coffee contentedly. “Ain’t none of us ever won that fight,” he told Zane flatly.
“Me and Zane’ll just bunk together,” Ty was arguing.
Mara laughed at him. “You two boys won’t fit in a double bed any more than I’ll still fit in my wedding dress,” she scoffed.

[...]

“Good morning, Zane dear, how did you sleep?” Mara asked as she came up to him and pressed a glass of orange juice into his hands.
“Ah, okay,” Zane hedged, taking the glass out of self-defense. “I don’t do too well sleeping in strange places lately, but….”
“Well, Ty’s bed is about as strange a place as you can get,” Deuce offered under his breath. He followed it with a muffled grunt as Ty kicked him under the table.”
― Abigail Roux, Sticks & Stones

“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you…unless you believe them. Then, they can destroy you.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones.”
― Anthony Liccione

“If someone calls me stupid, I have to actually believe I'm stupid in order for it to affect me.”
― Rachel D. Greenwell, How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth

“Sticks and stones build strong houses”
― Melody Carstairs

“The power of words to deceive is a danger far exceeding any we might encounter from physical weapons. Sticks and stones can break bones! But words can lead worlds into ruin!”
― Steve Bivans, Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living

“Because that saying about sticks and stones is a pack of lies. Unkind words hurt more than anything else. You end up carrying them around in your head, wondering if they’re true. Bruises fade, but self-doubt follows you forever.”
― Kate Lattey, Triple Bar

“Love me for me”
― Cher Lloyd

“Arrows can pierce armor. Mockery and nasty words can pierce my heart”
― Alain de Lille

“I don't need a trumpet for you to know I'm coming. I simply arrive.”
― Z.E. Frey, Sticks and Stones: Conquering Haters...with poetry

“Sticks and stones can break your bones but names can never hurt you," and how it's all backwards. Sticks and stones and fists CAN break your bones, but it's the words that break your heart”
― Mia Sheridan, Leo

“Words are dangerous. Hitler didn't gas a single Jew, but his words gassed millions.”
― Luis Márquez

“We must stay conscious of our words. We’ve all heard that little phrase when we were kids. “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” Well, I call BULLSHIT! As cute as that is and as much as I wish it were true, it’s not. Words are powerful, they can hurt or they can heal.”
― Rachel D. Greenwell, How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth

“Sticks and Stones

I dreamt a fossil came to life
and told a tale of his former wife
Did she beat him? Where?
She broke his fingers on the stairs
And tore out lumps of his orange hair
How could she?
Then she gave him pride of place
At an archaeological feast in his honour
A prehistoric horse was the main course!

© Stewart Stafford, 2020. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Sticks and stones can't break my soul
But words, they seem to sometimes harm me—
Maybe it's because I'm forever hungry—
...for the truth of love.”
― Jimi Hendrix, Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I can heal from that. Words can kill, when they break your will, and words you can't take back. - The Malwatch”
― Scaylen Renvac

“Sticks and stones may very well break bones, but the rest was all fucking wrong. Words could cripple a person for a lifetime.”
― Lindsey Hart, Faking It with Mr Nightshadow

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but names don't have my permission.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school”
― Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally