A Quote by Adam Savage

sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul

Adam Savage

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Bones Break Only Shatter Soul Sticks Sticks And Stones Stones Words

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Adam Savage
American - Entertainer
Born: July 15, 1967

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

Randall Munroe

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

Mark Haddon

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.

Lauren Oliver

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

Jim Butcher

I just think that as much as we say sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me - words do hurt.

Camille Kostek

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

Eric Idle

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

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

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

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 will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Robert Fulghum

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

Philip Zimbardo

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.