Skeleton/bones and Cartilage

Famous quotes containing the words skeleton, bones and/or cartilage:

    “The Queen has lands and gold, Mother
    The Queen has lands and gold,
    While you are forced to your empty breast
    A skeleton Babe to hold”
    —Amelia Edwards (1831–1892)

    “The eyes, opening and shutting like keyholes
    and never forgetting, recording by thousands,
    the skull with its brains like eels
    the tablet of the world
    the bones and their joints
    that build and break for any trick....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)