Top 100 Bow Down Sayings
#1. About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#2. Venus, when her son was lost,
Cried him up and down the coast,
In hamlets, palaces, and parks,
And told the truant by his marks,-
Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.
Bhartrhari
#4. I can always remember standing up to the baddest girls in my elementary school. Wherever I went, there was always a mean girl, and that girl would always hate me because I wouldn't bow down.
Nicki Minaj
#5. Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.
Rick Riordan
#6. We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Carl T. Rowan
#7. Let me get this straight," he said. "You'll give me all the kingdoms of the Earth if I just bow down and do one act of worship for you?" Dresden
James S.A. Corey
#8. Let me tell you something that I learned from my youth, from a sage called the Road Runner. You can walk off a cliff and the air will hold you. Only, don't look down.
Erin Bow
#9. I'm not looking for people to bow down to me or do things in my name or even pass around a collection plate for me. I say that I'd like to be God for a while because He really can get away with anything. I mean, ANYTHING.
Paul Feig
#10. It's a matter of balance of power. If the Supreme Court could just make a ruling and everybody has to bow down and fall on their faces and worship that law, it isn't a law because it hasn't been yet passed.
Mike Huckabee
#11. O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In little daily duties to which Thou callest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience.
Christina Rossetti
#12. The LORD will be awesome against them; s for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and t to him shall bow down, each in its place, all u the lands of the nations.
Anonymous
#13. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
Anonymous
#14. He who has conquered his internal enemies, to such an Arihant, I bow down to them. Learn to recognize the inner enemies. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the inner enemies.
Dada Bhagwan
#15. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti
#16. If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart ...
Carrie Newcomer
#17. Dignity is treasure one should never lose. When humbling yourself, Don't bow down to any man. For he is no greator than you
Sonny Cele
#18. A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#19. Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
J.C. Ryle
#20. Bow down to him, for he is your lord. Psalm 45:11
Beth Moore
#21. Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.
Robert W. Service
#22. When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children together, bow down before the Lord, ask him to forgive your sins, and protect you through the day, to preserve you from temptation and all evil, to guide your steps aright ...
Brigham Young
#23. 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.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#24. When the stakes are high, bow down low.
Beth Moore
#25. men, especially in the African American community" know they're not supposed to cry or "bow down,
Kwame Kilpatrick
#26. A lioness. She mates with her lion and he thinks the moment is about him when it is really about her, her children, her posterity. Her tricki s to make him think that he is king of the bush, but what he does a king matter? Really, she is king and queen and everything in between.
Yaa Gyasi
#27. Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one - so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim - the greater man.
Homer
#28. I don't bow down to the federal government.
Joe Arpaio
#29. Few indeed are those who continue to be openhanded after they have acquired the means for it. Such as these are princes among men, before whom one must bow down
Albert Camus
#30. The human will stands beyond all circumstances. Everything must go down before the will, for that comes from God Himself; a pure and a strong will is omnipotent. Before it all the powers, even of nature, must bow down, succumb, and become its servants - the strong gigantic, infinite will in man.
Swami Vivekananda
#31. It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#32. I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of what an Aboriginal Australian is supposed to be or look like.
Shari Sebbens
#33. Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?
Mary Baker Eddy
#34. Because when it all comes together, it's amazing. When it all comes together, the only thing you can do is bow down in gratitude, as if you have been granted an audience with the divine. Because you have.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#35. O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#36. It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.
David Sedaris
#37. In many strong people there seems to be a sort of natural need
to find someone or something to bow down to
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#38. When we know that His plans are to prosper us and give us hope and future, we bow down at once to the blessing of pruning, knowing that the change that will take place in us, will take us places.
Joshua Stannard
#39. Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.
Richard Cecil
#40. I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!
Bill Bailey
#41. If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.
Rebecca West
#42. 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
#43. But this time I was the one cut off as he gave a curt bow and turned, striding down the corridor toward the gardens and, I hoped, off a nearby cliff. Good riddance.
Tarun Shanker
#44. By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#45. Congratulations," I tell her with a slight bow. "I hope you and your power trip will be very happy together. Now, if you'll excuse me, it's time for me to go.
Ally Carter
#46. 6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us l kneel before the LORD, our m Maker! 7. For he is our n God, and we are the people of his o pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Anonymous
#47. The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.
Rumi
#48. I'm a man. A speak-my-mind, fight-for-what-I-believe, bleed-for-my-country, red-meat-eating man. I don't bow down to anyone.
Kendall Ryan
#49. It is we who create value and our desires which confer value. In this realm we are kings, and we debase our kingship if we bow down to Nature. It is for us to determine the good life, not for Nature - not even for Nature personified as God.
Bertrand Russell
#50. Oh come on!" I said. "If Walker couldn't control me with his Voice, did you really think you stood any chance? I've been around. I've stepped on worse things than you! I've faced angels, from Above and Below! I don't bow down to anyone! I'm John Taylor!
Simon R. Green
#52. As she trotted down the stairs, she saw Blake stand up, tucking his piano in his pocket. The day's bright sun had him trapped in his spot in the shade. She stepped into his cover and kissed him.
"Thanks for the roses. And Teddy loves his bow." She brushed her hands through his hair.
Debra Anastasia
#53. Bow down to me Pooky Bear, who has only two other equals in all the worlds.
Susan Ee
#54. Whilst passing by the lane where the nests of concubines rested, I saw a little temple.
Somebody lit the lamp in prayer. I couldn't decide to bow down to the temple or not to stop there and walk away.
Never heard if odalisques have gods too... if yes,are they as pure as ours?
Himmilicious
#55. If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility.
Leslie Morgan Steiner
#56. The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to
even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.
Stephen Crane
#57. Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.
Paul Of The Cross
#58. Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.
Emmet Fox
#59. the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more; 23 z and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, a who have said to you, 'Bow down, that we may pass over'; and b you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.
Anonymous
#60. When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.
Rajneesh
#61. No one quite knew why, but they felt light-hearted. Maybe it was because of the beautiful weather. The sky, so blue, seemed gently to bow down towards the horizon and caress the earth.
Irene Nemirovsky
#63. ANXIETY i will transform you into something useful and productive. I will not bow down to you. ~THE END
Jaeda DeWalt
#64. I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured.
Francois Hollande
#65. There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
Nicolas Chamfort
#66. Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#67. We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are.
Joyce Meyer
#68. When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.
Alan Rickman
#69. Bow down, peons," Lincoln said. "I'm a king among men." "Where are you coming up with this?" Cole asked him. Lincoln pointed at Jackson. "Um, hello - Jackson Burke knows my name.
Lauren Layne
#70. We might stay here the rest of our lives with the sky slammed shut, but mama had found the part of herself that refused to bow and scrape, and once you find that, you got trouble breathing down your neck.
Sue Monk Kidd
#71. She appreciated the fact that the wolf did not caper, bow down, yelp, or slaver on her, in the slavish and inconsiderate way of dogs. The wolf was no whore for man's approval. He fed himself.
Patrick Califia-Rice
#72. It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
Timothy Keller
#73. This must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end.
Peter F. Hamilton
#74. Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti
#75. Mother loved the wind. When I was growing up, she would recite this poem to me. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I, But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. So it is with God.
Alice Steinbach
#76. We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel, with several red chow dogs to match my hair. Today, they're sensible and end up with better health. But we had more fun.
Clara Bow
#77. Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve.
Trent Reznor
#78. At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down.
Rob Ryser
#79. For him, a universe imbued with the divine was not something to make you bow down but something to reassure you. The divinity of all things is normal, not awesome.
Tony Hendra
#80. 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
#81. With their ever-available loving hearts, they bow before God and bend down under all this pain and are lower than all the other creatures on earth. Pride is rare among them.3 Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#82. He sat there looking at her smiling and laughing, watching her hair fall over her eyes and she setting it back behind her ear, He turned away bowed his head down and smiled himself looking back at the sky.
Akshay Vasu
#83. Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?
Laozi
#84. I may bow down to pressure but I never succumb to it.
Saru Singhal
#85. I will withhold death from you as long as you obey my one command. Bow down to no one. Worship no one. Not even me. Do you understand?
Mike Carey
#86. Dudley came waddling down the hall, his blond hair plastered flat to his fat head, a bow tie just visible under his many chins.
J.K. Rowling
#87. There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to as soon as possible.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#88. He ain't kissin' yo' mouf when he carry on over yuh lak dat. He's kissin' yo' foot and 'tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.
Zora Neale Hurston
#89. For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
Jill McCorkle
#90. I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur
#91. O-suzu left whatever work she was doing at her sewing machine and dragged Takeo back to O-yoshi and her son.
How dare you behave so selfishly! Now tell O-yoshi-san that you are sorry. Get down on the mats and make a proper bow!
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#92. I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#94. My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face.
Mahatma Gandhi
#95. At the center, on the lawn of the courthouse, sat a log manger with a life-size nativity scene cut out of plywood. If an civil libertarian had complained about the nativity being on public property, he would have been hunted down like Santa's reindeer during bow season.
Deborah Smith
#96. Carrying the need to bow down and seek solace at the altar of nature, he had launched the canoe in the darkness. Tonight, his altar was the Alapaha River.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#97. 7 But I, by your great love, can come into your house; in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple.
Anonymous
#98. No, we're talking Brad and Johnny need to bow down and recognize, Jacque answered. (about fane)
Quinn Loftis
#99. One infinite - pure and holy - beyond thoughts and beyond qualities - bow down to thee
Swami Vivekananda
#100. Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.
John Wesley
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