Alice Oswald

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for.

British Poet

Nina Turner

Although she was not a politician, my grandmother gave me the most important lesson I've ever received and one I carry with me today. That all you need to be successful in life is three things: your wishbone to dream big, your jawbone to speak the truth, and your backbone to persevere through it all.

American Politician

Pippa Middleton

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?

British Celebrity

William J. H. Boetcker

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

American Clergyman

Robert Frost

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

American Poet

Reba McEntire

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

American Musician

Clementine Paddleford

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

American Journalist

The wishbone is often associated with holiday traditions, especially Thanksgiving in the United States.

Holiday Tradition

Pulling apart a wishbone is seen as a way to bring good luck, where the person with the larger piece makes a wish.

Good Luck

While mostly known in the US, the wishbone can symbolize luck and wish-making in other cultures too.

Cultural Symbol

In a mechanical context, a wishbone refers to its function as part of a suspension system in vehicles.

Mechanical Function

Used in technical fields, 'wishbone' likely refers to engineering or design, not to be mistaken with the culinary tradition.

Technical Term

The wishbone structure in machinery is relatively modern and refers to advancements in technology.

Modern Invention

 When I see objects, I imagine them in motion. I imagine what can be said with them. This next one here, "Machine with Wishbone," it came about from playing with this wishbone after dinner. You know, they say, never play with your food -- but I always play with things. So, I had this wishbone, and I thought,

Arthur Ganson: Moving...

 he came up with a hypothesis that birds descended from small bipedal dinosaurs. But other scientists opposed this idea because they said, well, you know, all birds have a wishbone, right? This is not known in any dinosaurs. So birds can't be living dinosaurs.