Quotes About Skulls

The packs of cigarettes available here carried the typical skulls and crossbones on them, but apparently no one in North Korea cared.

As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.

Sadistic military barbers intent on revealing the contours of their skulls for some nefarious phrenological purpose.

Skulls" said Lady Lamorna. "Definitely skulls. Rows and rows of dear little skulls, sewn all along the hem.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

You'll look like a scary calavera now," Catty assured the young girl as she leaned back to admire the skeleton skull she had made on her face. "Who's next?" Catty asked and pulled out another paintbrush. Four hands shot up, but one little girl eased into the chair in front of Catty before she had a chance to choose. "My turn," she said. Catty smiled and began smudging white over the girl's rosy cheeks.

Democracy celebrates the cult of humanity on a pyramid of skulls.

The only way for natural selection to make human babies with larger skulls was to end gestation prematurely and allow them to be born in a state of dependence that no other animal (except marsupials) could possibly manage. So to the costs of feeding large-brained babies must be added the costs of protecting them, and protecting them requires sophisticated social arrangements.

“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbonís shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.