Bow Quotes

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!

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.

The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

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.

I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on.

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.

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

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.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

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.

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

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.

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella.

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

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.