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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. -- Khalil Gibran
So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. -- Bill Moyers
The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. -- Reginald Heber
Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. -- Samuel Ullman
You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top. -- L.A. Reid
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. -- William Butler Yeats
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. -- Mikhail Bakunin
I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way. -- Guru Nanak
What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy. -- Pete Fountain
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins. -- Major Taylor
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. -- Christina Rossetti
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. -- bell hooks
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? -- William O. Douglas
Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way. -- Joni Mitchell
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. -- Allen Ginsberg
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. -- Khalil Gibran
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. -- Thomas Jefferson
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. -- Alexander McQueen
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. -- Shirley Manson
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. -- Khalil Gibran
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly. -- Michael Schudson
We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. -- Simone Weil
It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles. -- Davy Crockett
What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle; Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile: In vain with lavish kindness The gifts of God are strown; The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone. -- Reginald Heber
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. -- Bill Gates
Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months. -- Eric Clapton
I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60! -- Taylor Swift
I just felt like I was making people angry because I wouldn't wear the frilly bows. -- Thora Birch
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. -- Charles Buxton
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows. -- Erin Wasson
My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color. -- Cameron Russell
I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow. -- Isaac Hayes
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. -- William Henry Ashley
I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues. -- Elle Fanning
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries. -- Daisaku Ikeda
These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire. -- Henry Hudson
My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets... and full skirts. And then we do another look that's '50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I'm not in costume, I dress really normal. -- Ariana Grande
It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war. -- Sholom Aleichem
When I was younger and women first started to get in public positions, in my case the law, we went through a period where we wore those little ribbon ties, little bows. We tried to figure out what was our appropriate dress. -- Hillary Clinton
Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package. -- Billy Collins
Everything bows to success, even grammar. -- Victor Hugo
I've plenty of bows to my string. -- Vinnie Jones
The Jew bows before no man only God -- Menachem Begin
Man is at his tallest when he bows. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness. -- Balthasar Gracian
There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows. -- Joe Kinnear
Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows. -- Amy Sherman-Palladino
I love bows, â?¦ And I feel some couture pots coming on. -- Yves Saint Laurent
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods. -- Robert W. Service
History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. -- Orson Scott Card
I don't like pink and I am not into girlie stuff, bows and frills, sugary looking things. -- Katie McGrath
Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you. -- Jennifer Donnelly
In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information -- Henry Jenkins
I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind. -- George Eliot
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse. -- Gautama Buddha
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood -- George Bernard Shaw
The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows? -- William Shakespeare
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. -- Hosea Ballou
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands. -- John Sterling
The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views. -- Susan Faludi
WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you. -- Morihei Ueshiba
The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God. -- Neil L. Andersen
Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned. -- Patrick Rothfuss
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft." "I bet." He almost purred. I gulped. -- Ilona Andrews
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth -- Seneca
A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam. -- Thomas Hood
He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once. -- Giovanni Falcone
It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home. -- Bruce Chatwin
Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly. -- Susannah Cahalan
...protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man !... -- Liona Boyd
The bows, the polka dots, the color, the playfulness - you don't have to over do it. You just have to be able to style it in the right way. -- Christian Siriano
You're like a gift," he said, his voice rough. "All wrapped up for someone else. A man can't look at you, but think of loosing those bows, one by one. -- Tessa Dare
I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee. -- Abraham Coles
How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape. -- John Marin
The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants worst enemies. -- Claire Wolfe

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