Bow My Head Quotes

#1. Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#2. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want a woman who is better than I am; a woman who will compel me to bow my head in admiration.

Amish Tripathi

#3. I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!

Vladimir Putin

#4. I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal.

Donna George Storey

#5. I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#6. I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

Jose Rizal

#7. I stop, then, in my tracks, to recollect the awesome presence that I've left behind, the road ahead so long, my life so short, and bow my head and burst out into tears. While

Francesco Petrarca

#8. I bow my head just in front of the truth.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#9. The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. He has had his wish. He will not bow his head. [after a dragon chomped off someone's head]

Robin Hobb

#11. The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

Jean Giraudoux

#12. If she were Catholic, she could kneel, kneel and bow her head inside a church with brilliant stained-glass windows and streaks of golden light falling over her. Yes, oh yes, she would kneel and stretch out her arms, holding to her Amy and Dottie and Bev.

Elizabeth Strout

#13. 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

#14. Stop the press," said Talis. "Ha! I haven't heard that in centuries. 'Stop the presses!' But do." The smile was sharp-edged. "Or I'll have your head on pikes.

Erin Bow

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

Desmond Tutu

#16. She felt him bow his head to rest his jaw on her hair, the touch feather light. Tears beaded in her lashes

C.L. Wilson

#17. True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.

Philippa Gregory

#18. 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

#19. Ram wanted to marry a woman in front of whom he would be compelled to bow his head in admiration. P.210

Amish Tripathi

#20. Don't bow your head!
It gets even harder...

Look at me
and say that, what was incomplete.
Think of forbidden
and dream, as I do.
...

Zorica Savron

#21. I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.

Rick Warren

#22. 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

#23. That was the day Rehab promised herself she would never bow her head to such gods. She hated them. For all their glittering attraction, she had seen them for what they were. They were consumers of humanity.

Tessa Afshar

#24. It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#25. You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm's way to defend those who cannot defend themselves.

Jim Butcher

#26. Relax? he repeated incredulously. You're going to fight an armored knight with nothing more than a bow and you tell me to relax?
I'll have one or two arrows as well, you know, Halt told him mildly, and Horace shook his head in disbelief.

John Flanagan

#27. At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be praised."

Frederick Lenz

#28. Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon ... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

Don King

#29. You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

C.S. Lewis

#30. When you bow down your head to pray
Let the first thing that you say
Be a lowly word and meek:
I admit that I am weak.

John Piper

#31. The ways of creation are wrapt in mystery. We may only marvel, and bow our head.

Albert Einstein

#32. Bow your head little Okht, it's time.

Ashley Nemer

#33. Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body)

Ikechukwu Izuakor

#34. She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?

Libbie Hawker

#35. That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.

Tatiana Maslany

#36. She made her voice as firm as possible. "Don't let them catch you."
He hesitated, clearly surprised by her words. Then he smiled again, inclining his head in a shallow bow, acknowledging everything she'd left unsaid. "Traveling with you was a delight worth any delay, but I can delay no longer.

Holly Black

#37. When you are sad, do not bow your head in despair, lift it up; you can see and fight better when your head is up!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#38. The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

#39. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.

Christina Rossetti

#40. 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

#41. William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#42. First you throw bread at my head and bow you expect me to be a movie critic- Raphael said to Elena

Nalini Singh

#43. fight with your problems like a soldier never bow your head like a slave

Vinod

#44. Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen," he says in response.

Sara Raasch

#45. Taped on the wall was a hand-drawn picture- a stick figure with a bow on the head holding a litterbag.

Suzanne Crowley

#46. At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground. Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you feel you have done well or poorly, simply give your efforts to the universe.

Frederick Lenz

#47. Jesper Llewellyn Fahey, that is enough!" Colm roared. (...)
Inej cocked her head to one side. "Jesper Llewellyn Fahey?"
"Shut up," said Jesper. "It's a family name."
Inej made a solemn bow. "Whatever you say, Llewellyn.

Leigh Bardugo

#48. We call this a "bow", Cap'n, and the thing that's sticking out of that fellow's head over on the other side of the trench is called an "arrow". If you put them together just right, they'll do all sorts of nice things to people who aren't nice.

David Eddings

#49. 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

#50. When we raise one hand to say "bye-bye" we are gesturing that we are going apart from each other, whereas when we join our palms and bow our head, our hearts become closer.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#51. Kai shrugged and turned to Cinder. His eyes softened a little with a polite bow of his head. "I hope our paths will cross again."
"Really? In that case, I guess I'll keep following you.

Marissa Meyer

#52. By Pluto sent at the request of Saturn. Arcita's horse in terror danced a pattern And leapt aside and foundered as he leapt, And ere he was aware Arcite was swept Out of the saddle and pitched upon his head Onto the ground, and there he lay for dead; His breast was shattered by the saddle-bow.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#53. Before you go to sleep tonight, let go of your day; everything is alright. Just bow your head, speak your prayer, and trust in Him who will forever care.

Lisa Mischelle Wood

#54. Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#55. When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll ... We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.

Matthew Arnold

#56. If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

#57. Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow
Then draw it to the head and let it go!

Henry Van Dyke

#58. When one knows and one does not, the one who does not must bow his head and the one who does must take responsibility.

Stephen King

#59. For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep my head sharp, keep everything sharp.

Chris Wyse