Bone Buttons Quotes & Sayings

The greatest journeys all start with a single step. — Bear Grylls

Beginning a new year - have a resolution to make - not to be a damn fool!' -- Kay Francis — Lynn Kear

Do we soon forget the things we cannot see? — Tori Amos

Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming
their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield. — Paul Murray

The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make. — Ulysses S. Grant

I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself. — Adam Carolla

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. — Pico Iyer

It's all right for you, you and Danton. I have to go and stutter for two hours at the Jacobins and probably be knocked down again by maddened violin makers and trampled by all sorts of tradesmen.
Whilst Danton spends his evenings feeling up his new girlfriend and you lie around here in a nice fever, not too high. If you're an instrument of destiny, and anyone would do instead, why don't you take a holiday? — Hilary Mantel

So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons. — Michael Ondaatje

Family before Law, Gideon. — Cassandra Clare

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery.
The politician will be only too happy to abdicate
in favor of his image, because the image will
be much more powerful than he could ever be. — Marshall McLuhan

Buttons were made from wood and bone, and the fancier ones from cow horns. These last two materials could be obtained for next to nothing from the several abattoirs in the vicinity, and as for the wood, it lay all round about, clogging up the land, and — Margaret Atwood