Sticks And Stones Quotes

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.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

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.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Chinese throwing stars get you a dozen stitches.

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

It’s amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me – such bullshit.

Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones… Words will never, et cetera.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Throw your stick and stones, throw your bombs and your blows, but you’re not gonna break my soul.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

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.

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.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.