Top 295 Bows And Arrows Quotes & Sayings

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

I've plenty of bows to my string.

Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it.

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

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

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

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

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.

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

Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.

We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.

Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away. Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap.

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

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

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

I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles. Written across both arrows were the words 'Toward Civilization.' Of course, by the time I got to New York, I realized there really isn't any civilization.

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

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver.

I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn't like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I'd probably eat vegetables.

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

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.

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.

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 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.

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

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

It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.

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

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

Our only hope to speak with kindness, to lead with patience, and to not threaten our children with homicide is to ensure our spiritual reserves are not bone-dry. Moms are the middle of the flow chart; the arrows of exertion flow constantly out from us, but when no arrows of strength, grace, and peace are flowing in, the whole mechanism is in danger. Goodness in equals goodness out.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

The Jew bows before no man only God

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows

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

The arrows are from her dowry.

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.

Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.

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

It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

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

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

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.

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

All I can do is put on my armor and brace for the arrows.

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

Nevertheless, I take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you.

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

The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.'

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely

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

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.

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