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

  • What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

    Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.271, Open Road Media
  • You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

    Twitter post from Aug 27, 2013
  • 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.

    Sports   Dream   Ambition  
  • Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

  • We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

  • The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.

    Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.12, St. Martin's Press
  • The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

  • 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 (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

    Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.78, Penguin Books India
  • The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

    Success   Men   Practice  
  • 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.

    Love   Taken   Eye  
  • Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

  • To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

    "Pippa Middleton joins the party" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2008.
  • Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

    Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.9, Hachette UK
  • Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

  • Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.

    Perfect   Letters   Empty  
    Teddy Wayne, Marjorie Celona, Jim Gavin, William Nicholson, Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop (2013). “Simon & Schuster 2013 Fiction Sampler”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
  • A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.

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

  • Get a backbone, not a wishbone.

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