Quotes & Sayings About A Wishbone

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. — Elizabeth Gilbert

How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter? — Bel Kaufman

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be. — Clementine Paddleford

Love is a wishbone cracked in two. — Mirjana M. Inalman

It is not as if I want to be a princess. Since I was four years old I've spent every birthday, shooting star, wishbone, and lost eyelash wishing I did not have to be a princess! — Mili Fay

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone. — Caroline Myss

I take writing very seriously. There's a lot of responsibility in putting blood in the veins of fictional characters. — Brooklyn Hudson

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true. — Sarah Weeks

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. — Shannon L. Alder

I feel sorry for all the men in my future 'cause they'll all be held up to Julien (Grenier/WISHBONE protagonist)and I doubt any of them will cut it. — Brooklyn Hudson

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. — Duffy Daugherty

The wishbone will never replace the backbone — Will Henry

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. — Charles R. Swindoll

We need a backbone, not a wishbone. — Joyce Meyer

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. — Reba McEntire

Years later I read a statement that said, "A tot of people have a wishbone, but they don't have a backbone." I thought, That's the truth. Wishing won't get us anything. We have got to dig in and do whatever we have to do to get — Joyce Meyer

Put your backbone where your wishbone is. — Vikram Seth

That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men. — Robert Farrar Capon

Left wing ... Right wing ... it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone? — Jan Struther

I feel like I will split like a wishbone, but who will get their wish? — Laura Bradley Rede

Get a backbone, not a wishbone, — Caroline Myss

Wishbone

Half-eaten chicken
lying on white serving plate
quartered potatoes
chunks of carrots
celery too
we tell stories
and laugh about the day
your little finger is locked around the wishbone
so is mine
I pretend to make a wish
close my eyes
mumbling my lips
that's the way I faked out the nuns
pretending to say the rosary
so they would leave me alone
your face is so determined
you win the wrestling match
lifting your piece of chicken bone above your head
in victory
I know better than to ask
what did you wish for
secret desires of the heart are not to be shared
or
they won't come true
everyone knows that
you clean the dishes
I turn on the TV
lying on the couch
listening to you make music
with running water
and closing cupboard doors. — Robert Hobkirk

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them.
And its snap split the world in two. — Laini Taylor

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. — Robert Frost

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone. — Tommy Douglas

You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Tell me where she is, or I'll snap your neck like a wishbone! — Lisa Kleypas

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for. — Alice Oswald

Y
That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why? Me with my arms outstretched, feet in first position. The chromosome half of us don't have. Second to last in the alphabet: almost there. Coupled with an L, let's make an adverb. A modest X, legs closed. Y or N? Yes, of course. Upside-down peace sign. Little bird tracks in the sand.
Y, a Greet letter, joined the Latin alphabet after the Romans conquered Greece in the first century
a double agent: consonant and vowel. No one used adverbs before then, and no one was happy. — Marjorie Celona

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J.H. Boetcker

'Oh, no,' Heilyn said, sidling a little closer. 'If I was being shameless, I would have said I was like a wishbone and you needed to spread my legs to make your dreams come true.' — Amy Rae Durreson

Blowin' Free'

I thought I had a girl
And all because I seen her
Her hair was golden brown
Blowin' free like a cornfield

She was far away
I found it hard to reach her
She told me you can try
But it's impossible to find her

In my dreams everything was all right
In your schemes you can only try

I thought I had a girl
And all because I seen her
Her hair was golden brown, yeah yeah
Blowin' free like a cornfield — Wishbone Ash

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been. — Ronald Reagan