Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

Beth Moore

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

Brendan Myers

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not worship.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

Billy Collins

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.

Ann Voskamp

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

Claes Oldenburg

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

Erasmus Darwin

With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, And bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, And watches, as it moves, the orb of day.

Isaac Hayes

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.

Billy Rose

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

John Flavel

When the corn is nearly ripe it bows the head and stoops lower than when it was green. When the people of God are near ripe for heaven, they grow more humble and self-denying...Paul had one foot in heaven when he called himself the chiefest of all sinners and least of saints.

John Heywood

Better is to bow than breake.

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

Giovanni Falcone

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.

Allan Bloom

What a people bows before tell us what it is

Cassandra Clare

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

George Herbert

It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.

Horace

Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]

Lloyd Alexander

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

Madame de Stael

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

Joy Bryant

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Maria Edgeworth

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

Katie McGrath

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Forgotten history. You, however, are my present. (Varyk) Oh, goody. Do I have to wear a bow? (Fang)

Miguel de Cervantes

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Ralph Macchio

I just love that one and always loved the moment where Daniel bows to Miyagi after he puts him to sleep, ... That was John Avildsen saying, 'Before you leave, just turn and bow to him.' It's just a genuine organic great moment that just sort of came up on the day.

Margaret Weis

and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.

Libba Bray

Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow.

Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.

Vinnie Jones

I've plenty of bows to my string.

Yves Saint Laurent

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