Bones

Famous quotes containing the word bones:

“But the bones didn’t try
The door; they halted helpless on the landing,
Waiting for things to happen in their favor.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“I do not believe in erecting statues to those who still live in our hearts, whose bones have not yet crumbled in the earth around us, but I would rather see the statue of Captain Brown in the Massachusetts State-House yard than that of any other man whom I know. I rejoice that I live in this age, that I am his contemporary.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Here the bones of birth have cried,
‘Though Gods they were, as men they died’.”
—Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)