--- title: "12 Bending over Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 12 Bending over quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Bending over sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ed/james-weldon-johnson-10512_baby_this-great-god-like-a-mammy-bending-over_218113.png" --- > [This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-weldon-johnson/this-great-god-like-a-mammy-bending-over-her-baby-kneeled-down-in-the/) [James Weldon Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-weldon-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ed/james-weldon-johnson-10512_baby_this-great-god-like-a-mammy-bending-over_218113.png) > [I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/groucho-marx/i-can-see-you-in-the-kitchen-bending-over-a-hot-stove-and-i-can-t-see/) [Groucho Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/groucho-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/976/groucho-marx-788_bending_i-can-see-you-in-the-kitchen-bending-ove_1628963.jpg) > [Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-rooney/once-you-pass-forty-a-dime-isn-t-worth-bending-over-to-pick-up-if-you/) [Andy Rooney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-rooney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/andy-rooney-1253_bending_once-you-pass-forty-a-dime-isn-t-worth-b_1649638.png) > [Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/gould-carried-the-art-of-bending-over-backward-to-positively-supine/) [Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1d/richard-dawkins-115_art_gould-carried-the-art-of-bending-over-ba_3037376.jpg) > [People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-seinfeld/people-should-get-married-because-they-have-finally-seen-the-folly-of/) [Jerry Seinfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-seinfeld/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f3/jerry-seinfeld-880_being-single_people-should-get-married-because-they-h_2434718.jpg) > [I think rejection is a huge part of the business and there's so many cute girls that grow up with kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/april-rose/i-think-rejection-is-a-huge-part-of-the-business-and-there-s-so-many/) [April Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/april-rose/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a6/april-rose-38814_backwards_i-think-rejection-is-a-huge-part-of-the_2399982.jpg) > [ You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea \[Lange\]'s where… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/imogen-cunningham/you-know-a-documentary-is-only-interesting-once-in-a-while-if-you/) [Imogen Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/imogen-cunningham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/imogen-cunningham-15682_bending_you-know-a-documentary-is-only-interesti_2195096.png) > [Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alicia-keys/here-s-my-pet-peeve-the-not-so-unstated-rule-that-all-women-are-only/) [Alicia Keys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alicia-keys/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c5/alicia-keys-1094_bending_here-s-my-pet-peeve-the-not-so-unstated_1016659.jpg) > [It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katherine-mansfield/it-s-rather-nice-to-think-of-oneself-as-a-sailor-bending-over-the-map/) [Katherine Mansfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katherine-mansfield/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/katherine-mansfield-1781_bending_it-s-rather-nice-to-think-of-oneself-as_318683.png) > [I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lena-dunham/i-have-been-envious-of-male-characteristics-if-not-the-men-themselves/) [Lena Dunham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lena-dunham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/639/lena-dunham-1013_apologizing_i-have-been-envious-of-male-characterist_2458128.jpg) > [It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ruskin/it-is-a-shallow-criticism-that-would-define-poetry-as-confined-to/) [John Ruskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ruskin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/john-ruskin-314_acting_it-is-a-shallow-criticism-that-would-def_1275220.jpg) > [You should not fool the laymen when you're talking as a scientist... . I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-feynman/you-should-not-fool-the-laymen-when-you-re-talking-as-a-scientist-i-m/) [Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-feynman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/754/richard-p-feynman-495_acting_you-should-not-fool-the-laymen-when-you_1898244.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bending-over/#itemlist", "name": "Bending over Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "James Weldon Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-weldon-johnson/this-great-god-like-a-mammy-bending-over-her-baby-kneeled-down-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ed/james-weldon-johnson-10512_baby_this-great-god-like-a-mammy-bending-over_218113.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ed/james-weldon-johnson-10512_baby_this-great-god-like-a-mammy-bending-over_218113.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ed/james-weldon-johnson-10512_baby_this-great-god-like-a-mammy-bending-over_218113.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay…” — James Weldon Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Groucho Marx" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/groucho-marx/i-can-see-you-in-the-kitchen-bending-over-a-hot-stove-and-i-can-t-see/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/976/groucho-marx-788_bending_i-can-see-you-in-the-kitchen-bending-ove_1628963.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/976/groucho-marx-788_bending_i-can-see-you-in-the-kitchen-bending-ove_1628963.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/976/groucho-marx-788_bending_i-can-see-you-in-the-kitchen-bending-ove_1628963.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I can see you in the kitchen bending over a hot stove, and I can't see the stove” — Groucho Marx", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Andy Rooney" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-rooney/once-you-pass-forty-a-dime-isn-t-worth-bending-over-to-pick-up-if-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/andy-rooney-1253_bending_once-you-pass-forty-a-dime-isn-t-worth-b_1649638.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/andy-rooney-1253_bending_once-you-pass-forty-a-dime-isn-t-worth-b_1649638.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08c/andy-rooney-1253_bending_once-you-pass-forty-a-dime-isn-t-worth-b_1649638.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Once you pass forty, a dime isn't worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.” — Andy Rooney", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. 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