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"There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain."
"No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye."
"Every heart has its own skeletons."
"The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man."
"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks."
"If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs."
"I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust."
"No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole."
"If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!"
"One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them."
"They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations."
"An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music."
"From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas."
"Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath."
"It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled magnitude are found in great numbers, some lying on the surface of the earth, and some a little below it ... But to whatever animal we ascribe these remains, it is certain that such a one has existed in America, and that it has been the largest of all terrestrial beings."
"I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me."
"Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin."
"Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India."
"I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?"
"Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water”."
