Top 104 Bows Quotes & Sayings

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.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet... that's cool.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

I've plenty of bows to my string.

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.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

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.

Weddings happen once. That's the point. They're a bluster of confetti and hope all wrapped up in sticky wedding cake and four-year-old girls in big dresses with massive bows.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

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.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

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.

I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things!

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.

Archaeologists have been digging up thousands of graves of people called Scythians by the Greeks. They turn out to be people whose women fought, hunted, rode horses, used bows and arrows, just like the men.

I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

The Jew bows before no man only God

What's so funny?" "Your panties have a bow," he said. I looked down. I was wearing a short tank top -not mine- and my blue panties with a narrow white strip of lace at the top and a tiny white bow. Would it have killed me to check what I was wearing before I pulled the blanket down? "What's wrong with bows?" "Nothing." He was grinning now. "I expected barbed wire. Or one of those steel chains." Wiseass. "I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft." "I bet.

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.

I don't like pink and I am not into girlie stuff, bows and frills, sugary looking things.

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising.

I just felt like I was making people angry because I wouldn't wear the frilly bows.

WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.

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.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

I'm a big archery person. I grew up shooting bows. Some people play golf, I do this.

The musket, always a muzzleloader, took minutes to reload; an archer could aim and fire up to a dozen arrows in a minute. Muskets required continual cleaning and repair; bows were quickly made and easily maintained.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God.

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.

Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.

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.

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.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

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.

Growing up, my aunts would always put in hair ties and bows and all kinds of stuff, and I always hated it.

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.

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

Always have a black bow, a white bow, a rainbow bow - those bows will match literally just about everything!

I just always wear bows. I always love bows, and it's always been my thing.

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

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.

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.